Rishabh Pant equals MS Dhoni’s record with hundred on Test comeback during IND vs BAN 1st match

Chennai: Rishabh Pant marked his return to Test cricket with a marvelous hundred on Day Three of the continued Test match against Bangladesh on the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Saturday. For the duration of the process, Pant equalled former India captain MS Dhoni for many Test hundreds by a designated Indian wicketkeeper. Both Pant and Dhoni have six hundreds each. While Dhoni completed the feat in a hundred and forty four innings, Pant reached the milestone in Fifty eight innings. Wriddhiman Saha is 1/3 on the list with three Test hundreds.

But it, he became pushed aside on 109 when Mehidy Hasan Miraz caught him off his own bowling. Pant hit 13 fours and 4 sixes in his 128-ball innings. Earlier at lunch, India were 205/Three. Gill, starting place the day from 33, and Pant, resuming from 12, exploited the lack of Bangladesh bowlers to make the correct out of a fab, damp morning with sensible shot-making.

The Indian pair took on Bangladesh bowlers of their very own inimitable ways. Minimalism is quintessential to Gill’s batting as he plays shots with little flourish. The short-arm pull from in front of the face or that zero follow-through punch at some stage in the covers, which he often executed off Nahid Rana and Mahmud Hasan, would possibly not be out of the batting manual but productive nevertheless.

The left-hander started rather sedately, per chance desired to get his eye in earlier than opening up. The breakaway moment came when he pulled off-spinner Mehidy Hasan Miraz for a four across the first drinks break of the day. Since that time, Pant’s dismantling of Miraz became a feature of the innings as he brought up his fifty off 88 balls.

Once that fifty became achieved, the 26-year-old unfurled some of those typical Pant shots. Pant moved across the crease like a trapeze artist, and his scooped six over fine leg off Mahmud enthralled a sizeable weekend crowd here. He became dropped on seventy two by Najmul Hossain Shanto off Shakib Al Hasan as India added 124 runs within the session.