Rishabh Pant of Team India smashed the record for the fastest Test fifty by a visiting hitter in Australia, scoring a stunning half-century in 29 balls on Day 2 of the fifth Test against Australia.
Rishabh Pant, a swashbuckling Indian wicketkeeper-batsman, reached 5,000 runs in international cricket with a quickfire 61-run innings against Australia in Sydney. On Saturday, the left-handed hitter achieved this milestone in the fifth and final Test of the ongoing Border Gavaskar Trophy.The 27-year-old returned to his big-hitting ways in the second innings following a patient knock of 40 in 98 balls in the first innings, which included three fours and a six. Despite India’s situation, Pant continued to teeter on the edge of disaster, taking down a fiery Scott Boland for a six on his opening ball. He amassed an impressive 61 in just 33 balls, which included six fours and four sixes. He scored an incredible 184.85. Pant hasn’t been playing at his best during the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy, but he still managed to score 255 runs at an average of 28.33 and a strike rate of 59.02 in five games and nine innings, including one half-century.
He hasn’t been able to turn the majority of his series starts into significant hits. In the series, he is the sixth-highest run scorer.With seven hundreds and 23 fifties in 168 innings, Pant has amassed 5,028 runs at an average of 33.97 in 150 international matches for India. 159* is his highest score. With six hundreds and 15 innings, he scored 2,948 runs at an average of 42.11 in 43 matches and 75 innings in the test format, which is his greatest format. 159* is his highest score.
With a century and five fifties in 27 innings, he has amassed 871 runs at an average of 33.50 in 31 ODIs. 125* is his greatest score.
