Rishabh Pant achieves what Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli couldn’t, breaks major records in England

Rishabh Pant in Leeds Test

The Leeds Test was very special for Team India’s wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant. He managed to score a century in both innings of this match. In the first innings, he scored 134 runs. At the same time, in the second innings, he managed to score 118 runs. With these two innings, he made many big records in his name.

Rishabh Pant scored centuries in both innings of Leeds Test

Rishabh Pant left all the Indian batsmen behind by scoring centuries in both innings of the Leeds Test. Pant has become the first batsman in the history of Indian cricket to score a century in both innings of a Test match in England. Even cricket legends like Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar could not do this in England.

Pant became the first wicketkeeper-batter to score century in both innings of a Test match.

Rishabh Pant has also become the first wicketkeeper batsman in the world to score a century in both innings of a foreign Test match. Apart from him, only Zimbabwe’s legendary Andy Flower is the only wicketkeeper batsman who has scored two centuries in a Test, but he achieved feat in his own country.

Rishabh Pant also became the first Indian batter to achieve this feat in English soil

Rishabh Pant is only the 5th batsman from India to score a century in both innings of a foreign Test. Before him, Vijay Hazare, Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid and Virat Kohli have done this. But this is the first time in England that an Indian has done this feat.

Rishabh Pant scored a hat-trick of centuries

Rishabh Pant has also scored a hat-trick of centuries. In fact, he has scored a century in his last three innings of professional cricket. Before scoring two centuries in the Leeds Test, Pant had also scored a century in his last match of IPL 2025.