Rishabh Pant Equals Record Of Hitting Most Sixes In A Test In England
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Pant hammered 12 fours and 6 sixes for India in the first innings of the first Test and smacked 15 fours and 3 sixes in the second innings.
Rishabh Pant scored 134 runs from 178 balls for India in the first innings of the first Test currently underway at Headingley in Leeds and amassed a total of 118 runs from 140 balls in the second. The left-handed wicketkeeper-batter hammered 12 fours and 6 sixes in the first innings and smacked 15 fours and 3 sixes in the second innings on Monday (June 23). A total of nine sixes in the ongoing match helped Pant equal the record of hitting the most sixes in a Test match played in England.
Before Pant, Andrew Flintoff (vs Australia in Edgbaston in 2005) and Ben Stokes (vs Australia at Lord's in 2023) also scored nine sixes in a Test match in England.
Pant, who is India's leading six hitter in the World Test Championship (WTC), overall has hit 82 maximums in 44 Test matches played so far.
Apart from equalling the record of hitting the most sixes in a Test match played on English soil, Pant broke many other batting milestones as well on Monday.
He became the first Indian wicketkeeper-batter to score twin centuries in a Test match. Before him, only one wicketkeeper (Andy Flower of Zimbabwe) has scored twin centuries in a Test match.
Pant is the overall seventh Indian batter, after Vijay Hazare, Sunil Gavaskar (3 times), Rahul Dravid (2 times), Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, and Rohit Sharma, to score twin centuries in a Test match.
Pant has scored four Test centuries in England, which also helps him equal Matt Prior's record of most Test centuries in England by a wicketkeeper-batter.
Keepers with most 100s in Tests
In the list of wicketkeeper-batters with the most Test centuries, Pant, who has crossed the 100-run mark eight times, is only behind Adam Gilchrist (17) and Flower (12).
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