Rishabh Pant hogged all the limelight with his unbeaten 159-run knock in the second Test against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday. After Cheteshwar Pujara missed out on a double-hundred, Rishabh Pant took the charge of the team and established a 204-run stand for the seventh-wicket with Ravindra Jadeja (81) to power India to a mammoth total. Declaring on 622/7, India restricted Australia to 24 for no loss at stumps, 598 runs behind their first innings total.
Rishabh Pant was the first Indian wicketkeeper-batsman to score a century in Australia. It was his second after a 114-run knock against England at The Oval in September last year.
Following the impressive show in England, the 21-year-old southpaw was struggling to reach triple digits as he lost his wicket for identical scores of 92 in successive Test matches against the Windies at home.
In the post-day conference, Pant revealed that how he came out of the “nervous nineties” to score a hundred in Sydney.
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