Cliff Notes – Rishabh Pant goes past MS Dhoni
- Rishabh Pant has set a new record for the most Test hundreds by an Indian wicketkeeper, surpassing MS Dhoni’s previous tally of six.
- Pant’s achievement includes three Test hundreds in England, making him the only visiting wicketkeeper to achieve this feat, alongside Les Ames and Andy Flower.
- In a historic Test match, India saw three batters score centuries away from home for the first time since 2018, with Pant, Shubman Gill, and Yashasvi Jaiswal achieving this milestone.
Stats – Rishabh Pant goes past MS Dhoni
7 Hundreds for Rishabh Pant in Test cricket. He now holds the record for most Test hundreds as a wicketkeeper for India, going past MS Dhoni’s tally of six.
3 Test hundreds for Pant in England. No other visiting wicketkeeper has more than one hundred in England. England’s Les Ames in the West Indies and Zimbabwe’s Andy Flower in India are the only visiting wicketkeepers to score three Test hundreds in a country apart from Pant.
147 Shubman Gill’s score at Headingley, the second-highest by an India batter on captaincy debut, behind Vijay Hazare’s 164* against England in 1951.
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5 Previous instances of three (or more) Indian batters scoring hundreds in a Test innings away from home. The last of those was back in 2007 against Bangladesh in Mirpur. This was the first time India had three or more centurions in a Test innings since 2018.
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2 Yashasvi Jaiswal, Gill and Pant became only the second Indian trio to score hundreds in a Test innings in England. Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly were the first, and they also did it at Headingley in 2002.
6 Sixes hit by Pant, the most by a visiting batter in a Test innings in England. His six sixes are also the joint-second-most by an Indian in a Test innings away from home, behind Hardik Pandya’s seven against Sri Lanka in 2017.
134 Pant’s score in this Test match, the second-highest by a wicketkeeper at Headingley, behind Jonny Bairstow’s 140 against Sri Lanka in 2016.
3 Instances of Pant bringing up his hundred with a six in Tests, all against England – against Adil Rashid at The Oval in 2018, Joe Root in Ahmedabad in 2021 and Shoaib Bashir in Leeds. Among Indians, only Sachin Tendulkar (6) and Rohit Sharma (3) have brought up their century with a six in Test cricket as many times as Pant.
Since 2002, no batter has hit a six to complete his hundred more often than Pant. Chris Gayle, Brendon McCullum, Kumar Sangakkara, Rohit, and Kusal Mendis have also done it three times during this period.