Rishabh Pant seems to have retained his original class that was kind of faded during the IPL 2025. After scoring a blazing Test century, Pant has surpassed his predecessor and former India captain, MS Dhoni, in scoring the most Test centuries as an India wicket-keeper batter. This was Rishabh Pant’s 7th Test century, 4th against England. On day 3 of the first Test, Rishabh Pant grabbed a comfortable catch of centurion Ollie Pope with Prasidh Krishna delivering the attack. This catch made a spot for Rishabh Pant in the elite list of Indian wicketkeeper-batters with 150 Test catches.
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Pant is the only wicketkeeper who has done this besides MS Dhoni, Syed Kirmani. It took Pant 44 matches to reach 150 catches, whereas Dhoni has 256 catches in 90 matches. Kirmani, on the other hand, has a case of 160 catches in 88 games. Pant has been shattering records in the Leeds Test with the batter surpassing MS Dhoni as the most prolific Indian wicketkeeper to notch a century in a Test game, reaching his seventh on the second day of the first Test at Leeds against England. As a part of India, Pant hit the six on the first ball of the 100th over of the first India innings to score the milestone, off Shoaib Bashir over the fence. It was his initial century after September 2024 when he scored 109 against Bangladesh.
Dhoni scored 4,876 runs with 6 tons and 33 fifties in 90 Tests at an average of 38.09, and he is the leading run-scorer by an Indian wicketkeeper-batter in Tests. Pant scored 134 in 134 balls (12-4; 6-6), 3000 runs in this inning, and scored 15 fifties in 44 Tests and averaging almost 44. The third in this list has two centuries of Wriddhiman Saha, and then there are two other wickets in Syed Kirmani and Farokh Engineer. One century has also been scored by Nayan Mongia.
Pant also scored an entertaining 134 off 178 balls during India’s raid of 471 runs against England against new skipper Shubman Gill in the opening Test Day 2. On Day 2 in the innings of England, Jasprit Bumrah (3/48) stood out, claiming all the wickets that went down to help India finish the day on a high. But England overcame an early setback of losing opener Zak Crawley (4) to close the day 209 for 3 to reply to India’s first innings score. One-down. Harry Brook reached his 12th Test half century on day 3.
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