Rishabh Pant Aims To Break Multiple Batting Records During 4th IND-ENG Test
Pant suffered a finger injury on Day 1 of the third Test played at Lord's, after which he didn't keep wickets as well, but on July 22, India Test captain Shubman Gill confirmed that Pant is fit to play as a stumper in Manchester. (Picture Credit: PTI)
The 27-year-old left-handed wicketkeeper-batter would like to maintain his good show with the bat in the fourth match as well and help India win. In the fourth Test, Pant will have a chance to break multiple batting records. (Picture Credit: AP)
The overall record of scoring the most runs in a Test series by a wicketkeeper-batter is held by South Africa's Denis Lindsay. During the 1966-67 Australia-South Africa Test series, he scored 606 runs in seven innings of five matches. Pant needs to score at least 182 runs to break that record. (Picture Credit: AP)
Pant has scored 2677 runs in 36 WTC matches for India. He needs 40 runs to break Rohit Sharma's record of 2716 runs and become India's leading run getter in the WTC. (Picture Credit: AP)
Pant has hammered 88 sixes in 46 Tests played so far. He needs three more maximums to break Virender Sehwag's record (90) of hitting the most sixes for India in Tests. (Picture Credit: AP)
Rishabh Pant has scored 981 runs in 12 Tests played so far in England. He needs 19 more runs to become the first non-English wicketkeeper to score 1000 Test runs in England. (Picture Credit: AP)
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Pant has four Test centuries to his name in England, and if he manages to score a century in the Manchester Test, then he will become the first wicketkeeper-batter to cross the 100-run mark five times in England. (Picture Credit: AP)
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