Pant becomes first Indian keeper to hit centuries in both Test innings

Pant is also only the seventh Indian player overall to achieve this unique feat in Test cricket

Indian cricket team’s Test vice-captain and wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant continued his brilliant form with the bat against England at Headingley, Leeds, as on Day 4 of the first Test, the Delhi-based batter took 130 balls to not only score his eighth Test hundred but to also become the first designated Indian wicketkeeper-batter to score a century in both innings of a Test match. Pant scored 134 runs in the first innings before being dismissed by Josh Tongue. Pant is also the seventh overall Indian batter to score hundreds in both Test innings. Before him, Sunil Gavaskar has achieved this feat thrice, Rahul Dravid twice, and Vijay Hazare, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and Ajinkya Rahane have also done this once in their career.

 

 

Indian players with century in both innings of a Test

 

No.	Player	Innings 1	Innings 2	Opponent	Venue	Date
1	Vijay Hazare	116	145	Australia	Adelaide Oval, Adelaide	23 Jan 1948
2	Sunil Gavaskar	124	220	West Indies	Port of Spain	13 Apr 1971
3	Sunil Gavaskar	111	137	Pakistan	Karachi	14 Nov 1978
4	Sunil Gavaskar	107	182*	West Indies	Kolkata	29 Dec 1978
5	Rahul Dravid	190	103*	New Zealand	Hamilton	2 Jan 1999
6	Rahul Dravid	110	135	Pakistan	Kolkata	16 Mar 2005
7	Virat Kohli	115	141	Australia	Adelaide	12/01/14
8	Ajinkya Rahane	127	100*	South Africa	Delhi	3 Dec 2015
9	Rohit Sharma	176	127	South Africa	Visakhapatnam	2 Oct 2019
10	Rishabh Pant	134	100*	England	Leeds	23 Jun 2025

 

Equals Sachin’s record

 

Rishabh Pant, with his second century of the match, also equalled the record of the great Sachin Tendulkar and Dilip Vengsarkar with four Test hundreds in England. Only Rahul Dravid, with six, is now above him. 

Player	Test Centuries in England
Rahul Dravid	6
Rishabh Pant	4
Sachin Tendulkar	4
Dilip Vengsarkar	4
Sourav Ganguly	3
KL Rahul	3