Rishabh Pant
India|Wicketkeeper Batter
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Rishabh Rajendra Pant
October 04, 1997, Haridwar, Uttarakhand
Wicketkeeper Batter
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A match-turning, swashbuckling batter-keeper in the Adam Gilchrist mould, Rishabh Pant has had a starring role in more than a handful of India's biggest Test matches in his first few years in the team.
His first Test century came in his third match, on the 2018 tour of England, when he made 114 from No. 7 when up against a target of 464 that he made look almost gettable at points when he was at the crease. Early the following year he produced 159 off 189 balls in a giant India total in Sydney, which sealed their first series in Australia. An encore followed early in 2021, when he made a brisk 97 at the SCG, helping wrest a draw off Starc, Cummins, Lyon and Hazlewood after India were staring down the barrel.
Pant's finest batting hour came in the classic that followed in Brisbane: an unbeaten 89 to steer a veritable India third XI home in a tall chase, and to their second series win down under in two visits. In Cape Town at the start of 2022, he made an almost ludicrous 100 off 139 in an India total where the next highest score was 29. And later that year, he set India up with a rapid 146 in the first innings of the postponed last Test of their tour of England from 2021 - only for England to outgun them in a berserker fourth-innings chase.
It is a mark of Pant's no-fear, no-brakes batting that in his first four years in the game, he had as many scores between 90 and 100 in Tests as he did hundreds. It is the only way he has known: a year after making his Ranji Trophy debut at 18 in 2015, Pant scored a triple-hundred against Maharashtra, followed by two blistering centuries in a game against Jharkhand a month on - one of them ending in 135 off 67 balls.
With Test stats like his, Pant's numbers in T20 - close to 3000 runs over seven seasons for Delhi Capitals, at a strike rate of 148 - don't seem especially remarkable, but he has been a force for the Delhi side, their all-time top-scorer, and was appointed captain in 2021. He was bought at auction by the franchise the day he made a hundred in the 2016 Under-19 World Cup that took India into the semi-finals of that tournament.
Test 33 56 4 2271 159* 43.67 3084 73.63 5 11 246 55 119 14
ODI 30 26 1 865 125* 34.60 811 106.65 1 5 90 26 26 1
T20I 66 56 12 987 65* 22.43 781 126.37 0 3 86 37 27 9
FC 57 92 7 4123 308 48.50 4999 82.47 10 19 440 136 189 21
List A 66 60 5 1783 135 32.41 1704 104.63 2 11 183 58 69 11
T20 179 168 29 4354 128* 31.32 3006 144.84 2 22 399 196 107 29
Test 33 - - - - - - - - - - - -
ODI 30 - - - - - - - - - - - -
T20I 66 - - - - - - - - - - - -
FC 57 1 12 9 1 1/9 1/9 9.00 4.50 12.0 0 0 0
List A 66 - - - - - - - - - - - -
T20 179 - - - - - - - - - - - -
Most dismissals in a match (11)
Most catches in a match (11)
Most nineties in career (6)
England vs India at Nottingham - August 18 - 22, 2018
India vs West Indies at Guwahati - October 21, 2018
New Zealand vs India at Christchurch - November 30, 2022
India vs England at Bengaluru - February 01, 2017
New Zealand vs India at Napier - November 22, 2022
Bengal vs Delhi at Delhi - October 22 - 25, 2015
Delhi vs Jharkhand at Bengaluru - December 23, 2015
Guj Lions vs Daredevils at Delhi - April 27, 2016
India vs Bangladesh 93 & 9 3c/0s & 1c/1s 22-Dec-2022 Mirpur Test # 2484
India vs Bangladesh 46 3c/1s & 1c/1s 14-Dec-2022 Chattogram Test # 2481
India vs New Zealand 10 0c/0s 30-Nov-2022 Christchurch ODI # 4489
India vs New Zealand -- -- 27-Nov-2022 Hamilton ODI # 4487
India vs New Zealand 15 2c/0s 25-Nov-2022 Auckland ODI # 4483
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Ponting wants Pant to be around Delhi Capitals team during IPL 2023
"If he's actually able to travel and be around the team, then I want him sitting beside me in the dugout every day of the week"
20-Jan-2023•ESPNcricinfo staff
Rishabh Pant 'forever grateful and indebted' to individuals who took him to hospital
India wicketkeeper thanks Rajat Kumar and Nishu Kumar in first comments since his car crash
Rishabh Pant expected to be out of action for most of 2023
He has torn three key ligaments in his knee, two of which were reconstructed recently while surgery on the third is expected after six weeks
14-Jan-2023•Nagraj Gollapudi and Sidharth Monga