Rishabh Pant found himself wrestling with a familiar sense of Test-match frustration after India’s fourth-innings collapse in Kolkata. Chasing just 124, India were dismissed for 93, gifting South Africa a 30-run victory and a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.

Speaking after the defeat, the stand-in captain admitted that the team knew they had squandered a golden chance. “In games like this, you can’t dwell on it too much. We should have chased this target, but the pressure kept building in the second innings, and we didn’t make the most of our opportunities,” Pant said at the presentation.

He highlighted the crucial morning session where Temba Bavuma and all-rounder Corbin Bosch transformed South Africa’s narrow overnight lead into a far more challenging one. Their partnership dragged th

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