Rishabh Pant looked for a single when there was no one off the first ball in the fifth Test against England at Edgbaston, cheering opposition captain Ben Stokes. When Pant came out to bat at number five, he adopted the same method. India Were struggling at 64/3. He soon turned 98/5 and the Indian balcony looked tense. No worries in the world and at the other end Ravindra Jadeja provided a capable hand, Pant played like Pant. The young Indian wicketkeeper-batsman scored his fifth Test century in 89 balls.
Pant was eventually undone, but the damage was done as the calm client scored 146 runs at a strike rate of over 130, an innings that included 20 fours and 4 sixes.
Sure enough, his incredible innings got some great reactions on Twitter, while others responded with memes.
Rishabh Pant arrives at Edgbaston. #Engwind pic.twitter.com/xZokU6d4C1
— Subhayan Chakraborty (@CricSubhayan) 1 July 2022
Rishabh Pant is like this pic.twitter.com/cS2j1sraia
— Sagar (@sagarcasm) 1 July 2022
Rishabh Pant is a box office material in Red Ball Cricket #RP17 I pic.twitter.com/PoCbbJ0FJS
— nagarjuna shivaram (@arjun_frankie) 1 July 2022
After seeing Rishabh Pant, the Queen of England thrashes her legend Jimmy Anderson in her own backyard!
Sorry about Jack Leach! #Rishabh Pant pic.twitter.com/LcyXhInjYr— Vishal Verma (@VishalVerma_9) 1 July 2022
Gilchrist was not like that. With Gilchrist the least you could expect was what was happening.
Pant just… I don’t even know how to describe it. I mean, he is just… Pant.
— abhishek mukherjee (@ovshake42) 1 July 2022
You have to be Rishabh Pant to convince Rahul Dravid like this, what a knock!pic.twitter.com/buhmslVry6
— mufaddal vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) 1 July 2022
From Pant to Jack Leach, scoring 4 6 4 6 runs in an over. pic.twitter.com/jEIGGrPAPw
— The.Romanchik.jethya (@aeJethya) 1 July 2022
Rishabh Pant’s School of Cricket#INDvsENG #Rishabh Pant pic.twitter.com/fsHmqXDmqY
—Rohit (@Rohith_Crico) 1 July 2022
When Pant did the Gabba, Bairstow was struggling to retain his place in the Test side. to calm down. https://t.co/J2hqVnbyz2
— Manya (@CSKian716) 1 July 2022
Pant also broke MS Dhoni’s record for the fastest century by an Indian wicketkeeper in Tests. Dhoni scored a century in 93 balls against Pakistan in 2006.
Read also: IND vs ENG: Rishabh Pant breaks MS Dhoni’s record for fastest Test century by an Indian wicketkeeper
Pant also became the fourth Indian wicketkeeper to score two centuries in a calendar year, interestingly enough that the 24-year-old is the only player on the list to hit him on foreign soil. Earlier this year, he scored a century against South Africa in Cape Town.
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