First time in WTC historical past: Rishabh Pant breaks the all-time report of being bowled

Rishabh Pant entered the report books on the primary day of the primary Check between India and Australia in Perth on Friday. After the collapse of the highest order on the Optus Stadium, Pant performed an important innings of 37 runs to take India to 150. Along with his innings, Pant turned the primary participant in historical past to attain 2,000 runs as a wicketkeeper within the World Check Championship (WTC). He presently has 2,034 runs and is adopted by Pakistan white-ball captain Mohammad Rizwan, who’s presently on 1,930 runs amongst wicket-keepers.

In the meantime, England’s Joe Root leads the record of run-scorers on the WTC, having scored 5,325 runs in 61 matches. Pant is the third highest run-scorer for India behind veterans Rohit Sharma (2,685) and Virat Kohli (2,432) respectively.

Pant’s breakthrough got here as India staged a spirited fightback after being bowled out for 150. Debutant Nitish Kumar Reddy top-scored for India with 41 and shaped an important partnership with Pant.

Nitish’s sensible 41 off 59 balls gave credit score to an general poor batting effort by India who scored 150 of their first innings on the Optus Stadium right here.

“I heard loads concerning the Perth wicket. There was some trepidation. I had this in my thoughts that everybody was speaking concerning the bounce on the Perth wicket. However then I had the final dialog with Gautam Sir. Missed the apply session,” Nitish advised reporters throughout the day’s press meet.

“He was mentioning that ‘while you get a bouncer, take it in your shoulder. It was like taking a bullet to your nation’. That impressed me. When he mentioned that I felt “I must take a bullet for the nation. That is the very best factor I’ve heard from Gautam,” he added.

(With IANS enter)