Rishabh Pant: Rishabh Pant created history by scoring a century in the second consecutive innings, becoming the first Indian to do so in England..

Indian team's vice-captain Rishabh Pant has created history by scoring a century in the second consecutive innings. He showed his tremendous form and completed the eighth century of his Test career in just 130 balls. With this, Pant set a flurry of records.

Pant set a flurry of records.

Pant had completed his seventh Test century in 146 balls in the first innings. Now improving on this, he completed his eighth Test century in 130 balls. With this, Pant became the first Indian to score a century in both innings of a Test match in England. Apart from this, he is the seventh Indian to score a century in both innings of a Test.

Batsmen who scored a century in every innings of a Test for India

Vijay Hazare

Sunil Gavaskar (did it 3 times)

Rahul Dravid (did it 2 times)

Virat Kohli

Ajinkya Rahane

Rohit Sharma

Rishabh Pant

Pant became the second wicketkeeper to do so

With this, Pant became the second wicketkeeper-batsman after Andy Flower to score centuries in both innings of a Test. This legendary Zimbabwean batsman played an unbeaten innings of 142 runs in the first innings and 199 runs in the second innings against South Africa in 2001. Now Pant scored 134 runs in the first innings and 118 runs in the second innings against England.

Pant equaled Flintoff and Stokes.

The 27-year-old batsman faced 140 balls in the second innings and scored 118 runs with the help of 15 fours and three sixes. He played a huge partnership of 195 runs with KL Rahul for the fourth wicket. He was caught by Shoaib Bashir at the hands of Jack Crowley. Pant hit a total of nine sixes in both innings. With this, he equaled Andrew Flintoff and Ben Stokes, who hit nine sixes in a Test match played in England. Flintoff did this feat against Australia at Edgbaston (2005) while Ben Stokes hit a total of nine sixes against Australia at Lord's (2023).

Pant became the seventh foreign batsman to score 50+ for the fifth time in a row in England.

Pant had earlier completed his seventh half-century in 83 balls. He scored more than 50 for the fifth time in a row against England. He became the seventh foreign batsman to score more than 50 for the fifth time in a row in England. Steve Smith is at the top in this matter, who has done this feat seven times.

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