Rishabh Pant scored the 9th half-century of his Test career in 28 balls in the second innings of the Pink Ball Test against Sri Lanka. This is the fastest fifty by any Indian player in the history of Test cricket. Earlier, Kapil Dev had hit fifty in 30 balls against Pakistan in Karachi in 1982. That is, Pant has broken Kapil Dev’s 40-year-old record.
Before Rishabh Pant, last year, Shardul Thakur also scored a fifty in 31 balls against England. In this case at number four is Virender Sehwag, who scored a half-century in 32 balls against England in Chennai in 2008. He also scored 39 runs in 26 balls in the first innings of this test match. With this, he has become the first player to score more than 30 in both the innings of a Test with a strike rate of more than 150 in both the innings.
Virat Kohli proved to be a failure in the Bangalore Test, scoring 23 runs in the first innings and getting out for just 13 runs in the second innings. Fans will have to wait for his 71st century now. Let us tell you that since the second innings of the Kolkata Test against Sri Lanka in 2017, his average was 50 or more continuously. But for the first time after 40 Test matches, his average has now come down to 50.
Virat Kohli has so far scored 8043 runs in 171 innings of 101 test matches. His average has now come down to 49.96. It has happened after almost five years that the former captain’s Test average has come down to 50. He averages 58.07 in ODI cricket and 51.5 in T20. He has so far scored 27 centuries in Tests and 43 in ODIs. Fans have been waiting for his 71st century since November 2019 when he scored a century in the Pink Ball Test against Bangladesh.