Rishabh Pant Century England vs India Edgbaston: Rishabh Pant scored a century in a Test match between India and England in Birmingham. He made many records to his name during this century. He became the third Indian to score a century at Edgbaston, Birmingham. Before him, only two Indian batsmen have been able to do this. Team India’s great cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli have scored Test centuries in Edgbaston. Apart from this, Pant made more records in his own name.
Pant hit a century in Edgbaston and made it to the special list of Virat and Sachin. After these two, he became the third Indian to score a Test century on this ground. With this, Pant has reached the second position in the list of Indians who hit the fastest century in England. He has scored a century in 89 balls. While Mohammad Azharuddin is in the first place in this matter. Azhar hit a century off 88 balls in 1990. While in the third place is Pant himself. He hit a century off 117 balls at the Oval.
Fastest Test century by Indians in England –
88 Ball – Mohammad Azharuddin, Lord’s 1990
89 Ball – Rishabh Pant, Birmingham 2022
117 Ball – Rishabh Pant, The Oval 2018
118 Ball – KL Rahul, The Oval 2018
130 Ball – Kapil Dev, The Oval 1990
Pant, a talented player from Team India, has become the wicketkeeper-batsman to hit two centuries in a calendar year. Even Riddhiman Saha has done this wonderful work before him. Saha did this amazing year in the year 2017. When Dhoni did this deed in the year 2009.
Notably, Team India had a bad start. But then Pant and Jadeja took over the innings. With the help of the innings of these two batsmen, India’s score crossed 250 runs. Jadeja hit a hefty half-century.
England Playing 11 –
Alex Lees, Jack Crowley, Oli Pop, Joe Root, Johnny Bairstow, Ben Stokes (capt), Sam Billings (wicketkeeper), Matthew Pates, Stuart Broad, Jack Leach, James Anderson.
India Playing 11 –
Shubhaman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Hanuma Vihari, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohammad Shami, Jaspreet Bumrah (captain), Mohammad Siraj.