A total of 17 wickets fell on the first day of the first match of the 5-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia at the Optus Stadium in Perth. While Team India were restricted to 150 runs in their first innings, hosts Australia also lost 7 wickets to end the day’s play at 67 runs. In such a situation, the second day of this match is becoming very important for both the teams. At the same time, India’s star wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant, after arriving in Australia, certainly made a big splash with his innings of 37 runs in the Perth Test match, breaking a 47-year-old record. .
Pant is the highest run-scorer in Australia as a visiting wicketkeeper batsman.
Rishabh Pant faced 78 balls in the first innings of Team India in the Perth Test match and scored a total of 37 runs with the help of 3 fours and a six. With this, Pant has now become the highest run scorer as a guest wicketkeeper batsman in Australia. In this regard, Pant broke the 47-year-old record held by England wicketkeeper batsman Alan Knott, who scored 643 runs at an average of 33.84 in 22 Test innings in Australia, including one wicketkeeper. A century and four half-centuries were involved. Nott last played in Australia in 1977. It took Pant only 8 Tests and 13 innings to break this record. Pant has so far scored 661 runs in Australia at an average of 60.09, including 2 fifties and a century.
A partnership with Reddy took the score past 100
In the Perth Test match, when Rishabh Pant came on the field to bat, the Indian team lost 3 wickets to the score of 32. After this, Pant stood at one end till the score of 73 but the Indian team lost 6 wickets. From here, Pant was supported by Nitish Reddy, who was making his Test debut, with whom his 48-run partnership was instrumental in taking the Indian team’s score past 100. Nitish Reddy played an innings of 41 runs and Team India reached the score of 150.
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