Indian Wicket Keeper Rishabh Pant creates history |
Indian Wicket Keeper Rishabh Pant showed his mettle as a batsman creating history and a national record at the Sydney. The 21 year old cricketer Rishabh Pant created a record of sorts in the history of Indian cricket when he became the first Indian wicket - keeper to score a hundred in Australia. He scored a scintillating century, the second of his career, to exert more pressure on Australia on Day Two of the fourth Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday. Pant hit eight boundaries in his well-crafted 137-ball knock, building on 193 from Cheteshwar Pujara to steer India to a massive lead. Pant became the first wicket-keeper from the subcontinent to score over 200 runs and take 20 catches in a Test series. Pant also became the only second visiting wicket-keeper to register Test centuries both in England and Australia. Jeffrey Dujon, with hundreds in Manchester and Perth in 1984, was the first. India declared at a massive 622 for seven in their first innings after centuries from Cheteshwar Pujara and Rishabh Pant. The visitors lead 2-1 and only need a draw to clinch their first-ever series win in Australia.
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