Rishabh Pant became the quickest Indian wicket-keeper bat to 1000 Test runs.© AFP
Rishabh Pant on Tuesday became the quickest Indian wicket-keeper batsman to score 1,000 Test runs. Pant got to the milestone in his 27th inning thereby breaking former India captain MS Dhoni’s record of 32 innings. Pant got previous the 1000-run mark in India’s second innings on the fifth day of the fourth Test against Australia in Brisbane. The Border-Gavaskar series is on the line as the 4-match series is level at 1-1 with each teams engaged in a tight contest in the final Test.
Pant came in to bat at No. 5, ahead of Mayank Agarwal, as India kept themselves in the hunt to chase down the 328-run target set by Australia.
Pant has currently left a mark on this series with his magnificent 97 in the third Test in Sydney exactly where India had been in a comparable position as Brisbane, chasing 407.
The left-handed batsman replaced Wriddhiman Saha in the XI following the initial Test and has returns of 29, 97 and 36 in the series so far.
Earlier in the day, Shubman Gill scored a gritty 91 as India lost just a single wicket in the initial session and two more in the second.
Pant, who created his Test debut in 2018 against England, is the only Indian wicket-keeper batsman to hit centuries in each England and Australia.
He averages more than 40 in Test cricket with two centuries and 3 half-centuries.
Pant enjoyed a stellar run on his final tour to Australia, hitting an unbeaten 159 in the Sydney Test of the 2018-19 tour.
India had won their initial-ever Test series in Australia on that tour and a draw or a win in the Brisbane Test would imply the Border-Gavaskar Trophy remains with India.
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