Rishabh Pant has taken a record of hitting sixes.Image Credit Source: PTI
On the first day of the Handingley Test, the young batsmen of Team India won everyone’s heart with their banging batting. Team India, playing the first match after the retirement of veteran batsmen like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, showed their flame on the first day under the leadership of new captain Shubman Gill. While Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal scored a brilliant centuries, the vice-captain Rishabh Pant also showed his amazing and during this time also broke Rohit Sharma’s record. Pant has now become the Indian batsman to hit the most sixes in the history of the World Test Championship.
The Test series between India and England started in Leeds from 20 June. In the first Test, Team India had to start with batting. In such a situation, fear was being expressed that it would not be heavy for Team India to get down for batting on the first day, but this did not happen. Indian batsmen scored 359 runs on the first day, while only 3 wickets fell. In this, all the applause Gill and Jaiswal’s finest centuries looted but Pant also played his best role and played an important role in reaching the team here.
Rishabh Pant overtook Rohit
By the end of the first day’s play, the star wicketkeeper-batsman had scored 65 runs and played a great partnership with Gill, keeping his aggressive style under control. In his innings, Pant faced 102 balls on the first day, which included 6 fours and 2 sixes. With the help of these 2 sixes, Pant made the record of the Indian batsman who hit the most sixes in the history of WTC. Pant’s name has now been a total of 58 sixes in 61 innings of WTC. In this way, he has surpassed former captain Rohit Sharma (56). Now in this case, only England captain Ben Stokes is ahead of Pant. Stokes has 83 sixes in 96 innings.
Stokes will create history or pant will be equal?
Now in this series, Pant will keep an eye on how close he comes to Stokes. At the same time, it will also be worth seeing whether Stokes becomes the first batsman to set 100 sixes or not. As far as the first day’s game is concerned, Team India scored 359 runs losing 3 wickets. Jaiswal scored his 5th Test century and was dismissed by 101 runs. At the same time, after some time Gill also scored a century in his first innings and returned unbeaten after scoring 127 runs. Apart from him, Pant’s 65 and KL Rahul’s 42 runs also contributed a big contribution.
