Rishabh Pant Breaks Stadium's Roof With A Six During India's Net Session
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Pant is India's second highest-ranked batter in Test cricket. In 12 Test matches played so far against the English team, he has scored 781 runs.
The Indian men's cricket team, under the leadership of Shubman Gill, landed in England last week and has kicked off their preparations as well for the upcoming five-match Test series against England. In their first away assignment of the 2025-27 World Test Championship (WTC) cycle, India will face England in five Tests. The series opener is scheduled to take place at Headingley in Leeds from June 20 to 24, and the next four matches are scheduled to take place at Birmingham (July 2-6), Lord's (July 10-14), Manchester (July 23-27) and The Oval (July 31-August 4).
Wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant will be a key player for India in the upcoming series, and the 27-year-old stumper has announced his arrival in England by hitting a big six that broke the roof of the stadium.
In a video going viral on the internet from India's net session in London, Pant can be seen hitting Washington Sundar for a maximum by going down on one knee, and the ball then broke the roof of the stadium upon landing.
Rishabh Pant breaking the roof with his six. 😲 pic.twitter.com/ZkVjahRad6 — Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) June 9, 2025
Pant, who scored a century for Lucknow Super Giants in his last competitive match played at Ekana Stadium in Lucknow on May 27, has been appointed as India's vice-captain for the Test series.
The left-handed batter has a good Test record in England. In nine Tests played so far on English soil, with the help of two centuries and two fifties, he has amassed a total of 556 runs.
Pant, who is India's second-highest-ranked batter in Test cricket, scored 146 and 57 runs in the last Test played on English soil (in Birmingham from July 1-5, 2022).
After the retirements of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma from Test cricket, Pant will be one of India's senior-most batters in Test cricket, and he would like to bat with responsibility and make big runs against the Ben Stokes-led side to help India win a Test series against England in England for the first time since 2007.
India's squad for five-match Test series against England: Shubman Gill (C), Rishabh Pant (VC & WK), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Karun Nair, Nitish Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel (WK), Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav
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June 09, 2025, 20:34 IST
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