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Pant scored a brilliant innings of 134 runs in the first innings of this Test, and he demolished several records with a stormy innings of 118 runs in the second innings on the fourth day. The biggest record was that he became the first Indian wicketkeeper to score a century in both innings of a Test match in England.
Delhi: On the fourth day of the first Test match between India and England, Indian wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant created a panic in the cricket world with his explosive batting. Pant not only brought India to a strong position with his brilliant century innings, but also made many historical records.
Pant scored a brilliant innings of 134 runs in the first innings of this Test, and he demolished several records with a stormy innings of 118 runs in the second innings on the fourth day. The biggest record was that he became the first Indian wicketkeeper to score a century in both innings of a Test match in England. Earlier, this feat was done only by former Zimbabwe’s former wicketkeeper Andy Flower in Harare against South Africa in 2001. Pant equaled Flower’s record with this achievement.
This was Pant’s eighth Test century, with which he overtook Mahendra Singh Dhoni (6 centuries) as the wicketkeeper batsman to score the most Test century for India. In addition, he equaled the records of Alec Stewart and Matt Prior, scoring four Test centuries in England, which is the highest century in any one country by a wicketkeeper.
Pant scored a total of 252 runs in both innings in the headingley, which is the record of the highest runs in a Test match by the Indian wicketkeeper. Earlier this record was in the name of Budhi Kundaran, who scored 230 runs against England in Chennai in 1964.
Along with this, Pant also made a record of scoring 800+ runs by a foreign wicketkeeper in England.
Rishabh surpassed Rohit Sharma (56) in terms of most sixes in the ICC World Test Championship and did this for India with 58 sixes. The 9 sixes placed in both innings in Hadingley jointly included him in the list of batsmen hitting the most sixes in a Test in England with Andrew Flintoff and Ben Stokes.
Pant shared a 195 -run partnership with KL Rahul (137), which took India to a score of 364 runs and set a huge target of 371 runs in front of England. His innings has brought India to a strong position in the match.
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