Rishabh Pant becomes the first Indian to hit twin centuries in England

Indian players who scored twin centuries in test cricket

Before Rishabh Pant, there were six batters who had scored two test centuries - Vijay Hazare (1948), Sunil Gavaskar (1971,1978), Rahul Dravid (1999,2005), Rohit Sharma (2019), Virat Kohli (2014), and Ajinkya Rahane (2015).

Pant is now only behind Rahul Dravid in the list of batters with the most Test centuries for India in England. Dravid had played 13 Test matches for India in England and had crossed the 100-run mark 6 times.

Records achieved by Rishabh Pant in the First test against England

Achieved the milestone of hitting the most sixes for India in the WTC

Furthermore, Pant even surpassed Rohit Sharma’s record for most sixes hit by an Indian hitter in the World Test Championship. Currently only after English captain Ben Stokes, who has slammed 83 sixes in the ICC WTC, he has become the second player to score 65 sixes.

Became the third-best six-hitter in a Test match in terms of sixes hit.

While hitting nine sixes in the first innings of the first match of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, Pant had become the third player who hit the highest sixes in a test match. Pant has so far hit 82 sixes in 44 games and surpassed Dhoni, who had smashed 78 sixes in 90 games in his career.

Most test centuries for an Indian wicketkeeper

MS Dhoni is arguably one of the best Indian wicket-keeper batters in test cricket, but  Pant has broken his record by becoming the batter with the most runs in test cricket as a wicket-keeper for India.  In the first innings, Pant scored 134 runs and broke MS Dhoni’s record for most test hundreds by an Indian wicket-keeper batter. In the second innings, he slammed another century, though a calmer one this time and extended his record to eight centuries as compared to six for MS Dhoni.

Top 10 Most Test Centuries by Wicketkeepers

A wicketkeeper, Adam Gilchrist from Australia holds the record for most centuries, who made 17 centuries in 137 innings and made a total of 5,570 runs, and his highest score is 204* while hitting 26 fifties also.