Rishabh Pant, the vice -captain of the Indian team, appeared in a different style in the first innings of the first Test against England. During his innings, he made some attractive shots but along with Shubman Gill, he has shared a 138 -run partnership and brought the team to a strong position. Rishabh Pant scored a half -century in the first innings and also completed three thousand runs in Test cricket. With this, he has become Asia’s most successful wicketkeeper batsman in SENA (South Africa, England, New Zealand, Australia), overtaking MS Dhoni.
Rishabh Pant has scored an unbeaten 65 runs in the first innings of the first Test against England on Friday. Pant also completed 3,000 runs during this period. He is the second Indian wicketkeeper batsman after former India cricketer MS Dhoni to do so. Pant did this feat in 76 innings. He became the second keeper to complete the fastest three thousand runs in the history of Test cricket. Earlier, Adam Gilchrist touched the mark of three thousand in 63 innings.
MS Dhoni dominated in SENA countries ends
India’s wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant now has 1746 runs in 27 matches at an average of 38.80 in the army countries. During this time he has scored four centuries and 6 half -centuries. Leaving Dhoni behind in this case, Pant has become Asia’s most successful wicketkeeper batsman. He has become the highest run -scorer in army countries. MS Dhoni has scored 1731 runs in 32 matches.
Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant batting in the third session with great understanding and brought India’s first innings score to 300. He has scored 65 runs in 102 balls with the help of 6 fours and two sixes during his innings.
The highest Test run for India as a wicketkeeper
4,876 – MS Dhoni (144 innings)
3,013* – Rishabh Pant (76 innings)
2,759 – Syed Kirmani (124 innings)
2,611 – Farooq Engineer (87 innings)
1,442 – Nayan Mongia (68 innings)
