Rishabh Pant scored 203 runs at the Birmingham test
Rishabh Pant has performed brilliantly in the Birmingham test against England. Where he played a brilliant inning of 146 runs in the first innings. Also in the second inning he scored 57 runs. In this way, he scored 203 runs in this match premiered at Edgbaston. With this, Pant made many records in his name and also joined the club of legendary cricketer MS Dhoni and Farooq Engineer.
Pant breaks record of 72 years
Rishabh Pant’s record has been excellent in Test cricket for some time now. He made many records at the Birmingham test. He has now become the leading run scorer in both innings of a Test match in England. He broke the record of 182 runs (14, 168) set by Clyde Walcott of the West Indies in 1950. Pant has scored a total of 203 runs in this Test match.
Most Runs in a Test Match (Indian Wicketkeeper)
- 230 (192 and 38) – Budhi Kunderan vs England, Chennai 1964
- 224 (224 and DNB) – MS Dhoni vs Australia, Chennai 2013
- 203 (146 and 57) – Rishabh Pant vs England, Edgbaston 2022
- 187 (121 and 66) – Farooq Engineer vs England, Mumbai 1973
Manjrekar also broke the record at 69 years old.
Rishabh Pant broke another record of 69 years. Before him, Vijay Manjrekar held the record for scoring the most runs in a Test match outside of Asia. Manjrekar scored a total of 161 runs in both innings against the West Indies at Kingston in 1953. Now Rishabh Pant has surpassed this record by scoring 203 runs in the Edgbaston Test against England in 2022.
Pants in the club of MS Dhoni and Farooq Engineer
Rishabh Pant scored 203 runs (146, 57) in the Edgbaston test against England. With this, he came on a par with Farooq Engineer who scored a century (121) in one innings and a half century (66) in the second innings against England in Mumbai in 1973. He is only the second goalkeeper from India to score a century. and a half in a single test match. Apart from this, he also became the second goalkeeper batsman to score more than 50 runs in both innings of a test match played in England. Before him, MS Dhoni had scored 77 runs and 74 no-outs at Birmingham in 2011.