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Rishabh Pant became the first Indian wicketkeeper to score a hundred in either innings of a Test match.
Rishabh Pant became the first Indian wicket-keeper-batter to score a hundred in either innings after reaching the three-figure mark on day four of the first Test of their five-match series between India and England at Headingley in Leeds on Monday.
Pant joined the likes of Vijay Hazare, Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane and Rohit Sharma to have scored hundreds in either innings but is the first designated wicket-keeper batter to do so. Overall, he is the second designated wicket-keeper batter to score two hundreds in the same Test,after Andy Flower.
Batter 1st Innings 2nd Innings Oppoenet Venue Date
Vijay Hazare 116 145 Australia Adelaide Oval 23 January 1948
Sunil Gavaskar 124 220 West Indies Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain 13 April 1971
Sunil Gavaskar 111 137 Pakistan National Stadium, Karachi 14 November 1978
Sunil Gavaskar 107 182* West Indies Eden Gardens, Kolkata 29 December 1978
Rahul Dravid 190 103* New Zealand Seddon Park, Hamilton 2 January 1999
110 135 Pakistan Eden Gardens, Kolkata 16 March 2005
Virat Kohli 115 141 Australia Adelaide Oval, Adelaide 9 December 2014
Ajinkya Rahane 127 100* South Africa Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi 3 December 2015
Rohit Sharma 176 127 South Africa ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam 2 October 2019
Rishabh Pant 134 100* England Headingley, Leeds 23 June 2025
Pant also surpassed Alec Stewart's record for the highest aggregate runs for a designated wicketkeeper in a Test in England.
It is Pant's eighth Test hundred, and five against England and he had earlier surpassed MS Dhoni to become the wicketkeeper with the most Test centuries for India. It is a mammoth feat, no other visiting wicketkeeper has more than one Test century in England.
During his first innings of 134 off 178 balls (12 fours, 6 sixes), Pant also completed 3,000 runs in 44 Tests, boasting 15 fifties and an average of nearly 44.
The wicket-keeper-batter also achieved a remarkable feat in a Test innings in England by hitting eight sixes, the highest number by a visiting batter in the sport's history. He had earlier hit six sixes in the first innings, making him the second-highest Indian six-hitter in a Test innings away from home, behind Hardik Pandya's seven against Sri Lanka in 2017.
Pant's milestone put him ahead of Dhoni in SENA centuries and then surpassed England's Les Ames for five away hundreds, and joined Andy Flower on 6 and is behind only Adam Gilchrist with 10 among wicketkeepers.
The knock also placed Pant among India's finest overseas performers, as he surpassed 2,000 away Test runs, further proving his ability to deliver in testing conditions.

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