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Rishabh Pant

India|Wicketkeeper Batter
Rishabh Pant
INTL CAREER: 2017 - 2024
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Full Name

Rishabh Rajendra Pant

Born

October 04, 1997, Haridwar, Uttarakhand

Age

27y 8d

Batting Style

Left hand Bat

Fielding Position

Wicketkeeper

Playing Role

Wicketkeeper Batter

Rishabh Pant player profile

A match-turning, swashbuckling batter-keeper in the Adam Gilchrist mould, Rishabh Pant has had a starring role in more than a handful of India's biggest Test matches in his first few years in the team.

His first Test century came in his third match, on the 2018 tour of England, when he made 114 from No. 7 when up against a target of 464 that he made look almost gettable at points when he was at the crease. Early the following year he produced 159 off 189 balls in India's total of 622 in Sydney, which sealed their first series win in Australia. An encore followed early in 2021, when he made 97 off just 118 at the SCG, helping wrest a draw off Starc, Cummins, Lyon and Hazlewood when India were staring down the barrel.

Pant's finest batting hour came in the classic that followed in Brisbane: an unbeaten 89 to steer a veritable India third XI home in a tall chase, and to their second series win down under in two visits. The whitewash of England at home that followed brought another two centuries for him, and in Cape Town at the start of 2022, he made an almost ludicrous 100 off 139 in an India total where the next highest score was 29. Later that year, he set India up with a breakneck 146 in the first innings of the postponed last Test of their tour of England from 2021 - only for England to outgun them in a berserker fourth-innings chase.

In December 2022, Pant was seriously injured in a horrific car crash but he returned to the game 15 months later, in the 2024 IPL, leaner and more fit, his attacking fervour undiminished.

It is a mark of Pant's no-fear, no-brakes batting that in his first four years in the game, he had as many scores between 90 and 100 in Tests as he did hundreds. It is the only way he has known: a year after making his Ranji Trophy debut at 18 in 2015, he scored a triple-hundred against Maharashtra, followed by two blistering centuries in a game against Jharkhand a month on - one of them ending in 135 off 67 balls.

With Test stats like his, Pant's numbers in T20 - over 3000 runs in eight seasons for Delhi Capitals, at a strike rate of close to 150 - don't seem especially remarkable, but he has been a force for the Delhi side, their all-time top-scorer, and was appointed captain in 2021. He was bought at auction by the franchise the day he made a hundred in the 2016 Under-19 World Cup, which took India into the semi-finals of that tournament.

Rishabh Pant IPL factfile

- Rishabh Pant was bought by DC at the 2016 IPL auction, on the same day that he scored a century to seal India's place in the Under-19 World Cup semi-final, and he has remained with them ever since.

- An attacking left-hand wicketkeeper-batter, Pant made a name for himself with his audacious stroke play and daredevil approach. His best season with the bat was in IPL 2018, when he scored 684 runs at a strike rate of 173.60.

- In IPL 2019, Pant was DC's second highest run-scorer - 488 at a strike rate of 162.66 - as they qualified for the playoffs for the first time since 2012.

- Pant was named DC's captain for IPL 2021, when Shreyas Iyer was injured, and had led the team to the top of the points table at the halfway stage before the season was disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. When the season resumed later in 2021, DC decided to continue with Pant as their captain.

- Pant returned to play IPL 2024 after recovering from severe injuries he suffered in a life-threatening car accident in December 2022. He was named captain of Delhi Capitals again after his return, and, back to his best, made 446 runs in yet another middling season for the team.

Rishabh Pant Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests356052432159*44.21328074.146112665912214
ODIs31271871125*33.50820106.21159126271
T20Is766614120965*23.25950127.2603111444011
FC60988435230848.35525282.86112047014219921
List A67615178913531.941713104.43211184587011
T20s202191335022128*31.783462145.0622546022813136

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests35------------
ODIs31------------
T20Is76------------
FC60112911/91/99.004.5012.0000
List A67------------
T20s202------------

Rishabh Pant T20 Stats

Batting & Fielding

TournamentTeamsMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
IPLDC111110173284128*35.312205148.931182961547523

Bowling

TournamentTeamsMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
IPLDC111------------
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Recent Matches of Rishabh Pant

MatchBatWktDateGroundFormat
India vs Bangladesh9 & 4*0c/0s & 2c/0s27-Sep-2024KanpurTest # 2552
India vs Bangladesh39 & 1091c/0s & 0c/0s19-Sep-2024ChennaiTest # 2550
India B vs India A7 & 612c/0s & 5c/0s05-Sep-2024BengaluruFC
India vs Sri Lanka61c/0s07-Aug-2024Colombo (RPS)ODI # 4754
India vs Sri Lanka2*0c/1s28-Jul-2024PallekeleT20I # 2768

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Photos of Rishabh Pant

Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant were all smiles after surviving a mix-up
Rishabh Pant rolls his arm over at the nets
India were made to work hard for their first wicket in Bangladesh's second gig
Rishabh Pant hurried to his sixth Test hundred after lunch
Rishabh Pant gets a bear hug from Shubman Gill after his century
Rishabh Pant stroked a century on his comeback to Tests