Rishabh Pant scored a surprising century and a positive half-century within the ongoing Take a look at between India and England at Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Rishabh Pant has continued to smash data in Take a look at cricket and has added but achieved one more unimaginable feat within the longest format of the sport because of his spectacular show with the bat at Edgbaston. The left-handed batsman was India’s greatest performer with the bat within the sport.
Within the first innings, his gorgeous counter-attacking century helped the vacationers recuperate from a disastrous begin to put up an enormous complete. Pant scored a 89-ball ton and went on to attain 146 to assist India recuperate from 98 for five and put up 416 of their first innings.
Pant’s spectacular show with the bat continued within the second innings too. He walked out to bat when India had been in a precarious place as soon as once more. Group India had been reeling at 75 for 3 earlier than Pant performed one more positive knock to bail the workforce out of bother.
He scored a positive fifty and added 78 runs with Cheteshwar Pujara to take the rating previous the 150-run mark. Jack Leach ended Pant’s keep on the crease when the latter tried to play a reverse sweep however may solely edge the ball to the slip fielder. Earlier than departing, Pant scored 57 runs off 86 balls with the assistance of 8 fours.
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Because of his knocks within the Edgbaston Take a look at, Rishabh Pant has now turn into the first-ever wicketkeeper-batsman from India to hit a century and a fifty in the identical Take a look at outdoors of India. Total, he's the second India wicketkeeper-batsman to realize the feat.
Earlier than him, Farokh Engineer had scored a century and a fifty in the identical Take a look at. Engineer had achieved the feat in opposition to England too but it surely got here at house throughout the 1973 Mumbai Take a look at. Engineer had scored 121 runs within the first innings earlier than taking part in a knock of 66 within the second innings.
