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Rishabh Pant Breaks Plethora Of Records In Sydney Test
By CricShots - Jan 4, 2019 12:15 pm
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The Indian wicket-keeper, Rishabh Pant smashed his second Test on Day 2 of the ongoing final game of the four-match Test series against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG). He played an unbeaten knock of 159 off just 189 balls with the help of 15 boundaries and a humungous six. India declared their first innings at the score of 622/7 after tiring the Australian bowlers for almost 168 overs.

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Rishabh Pant after scoring the century

Pant’s ton came from a four off spinner Marnus Labuschagne. He reached the highest score by an Indian wicket-keeper on the overseas soil as he surpassed MS Dhoni’s tally of 148, which he scored in Faisalabad against Pakistan. It was also his personal highest score in his small Test career of 9 matches as he scored his first Test century at the Oval against England last year when he smashed 114.

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With the ton in Sydney, Pant also became the first Indian wicket-keeper to score a century on the Australian soil. He also became the only second visiting wicket-keeper to register Test centuries both in England and Australia. Jeffery Dujon, with centuries in Manchester and Perth in 1984, was the first wicket-keeper batsman to do so.

Pant is now the second highest run-scorer in the ongoing four-Test series in Australia as he has now surpassed Virat Kohli’s tally of 282 runs and trails only Cheteshwar Pujara, who leads with 521 runs. Moreover, he also became the first wicket-keeper from the subcontinent to score more than 200 runs and take 20 catches in a Test series in overseas conditions.

Performance of Indian glovemen in Australia:

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Indian wicket-keepers

Rishabh has taken 20 catches in the series  and as far as dismissals are concerned, Dhoni held the most in Australia: 35 (31 catches, four stumpings) followed by Kirmani with 27 (18 catches, nine stumpings).

Currently, the Indian team is having an unassailable 2-1 lead in the series as they won the Tests in Adelaide and Melbourne. With Rishabh’s century chances of India’s loss in the series has demeaned further as the Australian batsmen have already been down and out in the series so far. 

The southpaw was applauded by a host of celebrated stars on social media, here are some of the reactions: