The star India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant is set to be in action for the senior men’s side in the upcoming high-octane five-match Test series against England. Besides his wicket keeping and batting, he will also be serving in an extra responsibility as vice-captain of the Indian team, as a deputy for the newly-appointed skipper Shubman Gill.
Pant will be a crucial asset with the bat for his side in this all-important Test series against the Englishmen. He can add some impactful and important runs while batting in the middle order, and his contribution behind the wickets will also be a vital cog in the wheel for Team India.
With that said, here in this listicle, we’ll have a look at Rishabh Pant’s top three performances in England.
57 vs England – 2nd Innings (2022)
England and India took on each other in the one-off rescheduled fifth Test of the five-match Test series that was played at Edgbaston in Birmingham from July 1 to July 5. This game was a part of the five-match Test series, which was stopped midway due to COVID cases in 2021.
Speaking of Rishabh Pant, he was one of the top performers for India in this game despite the team’s defeat by 7 wickets. In the second innings, he scored 57 runs off 86 balls, with eight fours. Following Cheteshwar Pujara, he was the second leading run-scorer for India in the second innings. This performance ranks as the third-best performance of Rishabh Pant in England.
114 vs England – 2nd Innings (2018)
India were chasing the massive target of 464 runs in the fourth innings of the fifth Test of the five-match series against England. Rishabh Pant ended up as one of the two centurions in this innings, alongside KL Rahul (149 runs off 224 balls, with 20 fours and a six).
Besides KL, Rishabh Pant also scored a quick knock of 114 runs off 146 balls, with 15 fours and four sixes, with an impressive strike rate of 78.08. However, Pant’s knock went in vain as India were eventually bundled out at the score of 345 runs and lost the game by 118 runs.
146 vs England – 1st Innings (2022)
Before his 57-run knock in the second innings of the one-off rescheduled fifth Test against England in 2022, Rishabh Pant also starred with the bat in the first innings as England had won the toss and asked India to bat first. The visitors were struggling at the score of 98 runs for the loss of 5 wickets. Then came Rishabh Pant’s brilliant knock and his decisive partnership of 222 runs for the sixth wicket with star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja.
Pant scored 146 runs off just 111 balls, with 19 fours and four sixes, with a blistering strike rate of 131.53. He also ended up as the leading run-scorer for India in the first innings as they managed to post a decent total of 416 runs in the first innings. However, India eventually lost the Test match by 7 wickets and the series ended drawn with the score line of 2-2.
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