IND vs Eng: Rishabh Pant is equal to Sachin Tendulkar’s record, now only behind Rahul Dravid. Cricket news
Rishabh Pant continued to strengthen his reputation as India’s most fearless wicketkeeper-better, matching several records in the headingley Test for the twin centuries and on the way. After scoring a fluent 134 in the first innings, the pants added another 118 to the second, which became the first Indian to score for centuries in both innings of a test in England. He has now joined India’s Twin Century Club, including Vijay Hazare, Sunil Gavaskar (three times), Rahul Dravid (twice), Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane and Rohit Sharma. The continuity of pants in England is increasingly acquiring them a special place among the great people of India’s batting. Hundreds of his four Tests in England put him up with Sachin Tendulkar and Dilip Vengsarkar, both have four tests in the country. Only Rahul Dravid is more for India, with six Test tons in England. Hundreds of pants twin were also made by the second designated wicketkeeper to achieve this achievement in Test History after Zimbabwe’s Andy Flower. His 252 -run match is the highest in a test by an Indian wicketkeeper, who breaks the Buddha Kundran’s record of 230 against England in Chennai in 1964. It also has the fourth highest match gathering by any wicketkeeper in Test cricket, with only flowers ahead of it.
The pants were on a complete performance in the power-touching headingley as they hit nine sixes in the second innings, with Andrew Flintoff and Ben Stokes, equaled the record for the most sixes in a test in England.Quiz: Who is that IPL player? The pants have joined an elite list of batsmen with five fifty-fifty-plas scores in England, putting it in the same brackets as Don Bradman, Honey Kronje, Shivnarin Chanderpall, Kumar Sangakkara and Deril Mitchell. Only Steven Smith has more than seven. The headingley Test was also historic for India, as the team first produced five centuries in a single match. Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill and Pant scored in the first innings for centuries, while KL Rahul and Pant added two more to the other. After bringing his second century, the pants brushed Sunil Gavaskar’s fickle suggestion with a Somaras, rescued it for another day and instead it launched a quick retaliation on the root before falling for 118. Pant’s record-breaking spries in England underlines their growing height as one of the most influential batsmen in India in foreign trials.
