Rishabh Pant Becomes First Wicketkeeper-Batter In 141 Years To...
Rishabh Pant, despite suffering a foot injury on Wednesday (July 23), which will reportedly keep him out of action for six weeks, came out to bat for India in the first innings of the ongoing fourth Test against England in Manchester and scored 54 runs from 75 balls. During his stay at the crease, he hammered three fours and two sixes and broke multiple batting records.
The 54-run knock in the first innings helped Pant take his tally of runs to 479 in the ongoing series.
The total of 479 runs is the most by any wicketkeeper-batter in a Test series played on English soil.
The previous best was 464 runs by Alec Stewart of England during the 1998 England-South Africa Test series.
Most Test runs in a series by a WK in England
479* – Rishabh Pant vs ENG, 2025
464 – Alec Stewart vs SA, 1998
415* – Jamie Smith vs IND, 2025
387 – Jonny Bairstow vs SL, 2016
Apart from that, Pant also broke the Indian record of scoring the most 50+ scores in a Test series by a wicketkeeper-batter. During his playing days, MS Dhoni twice scored four 50+ scores in a series, and Farokh Engineer, who also has a stand named after him at Old Trafford, also crossed the 50-run mark four times during the 1972-73 India-England Test series.
5 – Rishabh Pant vs England, 2025*
4 – Farokh Engineer vs England, 1972/73
4 – MS Dhoni vs Australia, 2008/09
4 – MS Dhoni vs England, 2014
Pant has nine 50+ scores to his credit in red-ball matches played on English soil now which is one more than Dhoni's tally of 8.
In addition to breaking three big records as a wicketkeeper-batter, Pant also entered his name in the record books by becoming India's leading run getter in the World Test Championship (WTC). During his playing days, Rohit featured in 40 WTC matches for India and amassed a total of 2716 runs, whereas Pant has 2731 runs to his credit now in 38 WTC matches.
The couple of sixes during his 75-ball stay at the crease in the first innings has taken Pant's tally of maximums to 90 in Test cricket, which helps him equal Virender Sehwag's record of most sixes for India in Tests. Sehwag played 103 Tests for India from 2001 to 2013 and hammered 90 maximums.
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