Rishabh pant historic inning: India’s wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant played a historic innings on the Manchester ground. On the first day of the fourth Test against England, Pant suffered a toe injury, due to which retired hurt. On the second day of the match, Pant once again batted, then he broke a historic record of former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Pant has become India’s highest half -century wicketkeeper batsman in a series.

Rishabh Pant broke MS Dhoni’s record

Rishabh Pant scored a brilliant half -century of 54 runs in 75 balls in the first innings of the Manchester Test. Pant put this fifth fifty in this series against England. With this, Pant became the wicketkeeper batsman to score the most half -century in a series. Earlier, this record was in the name of India’s legendary player Farooq Engineer and former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

• Former India veteran Farooq Engineer had put four fifty in the same series against England in 1972-73.
• Former captain and cricketer of the Indian team MS Dhoni has done this feat twice. Dhoni first scored four half-centuries against Australia in 2008-09. At the same time, in 2014, four fifty against England in 2014.
• Now Rishabh Pant, vice -captain of India’s Test team, has put five fifty till the first innings of the fourth Test in this series. Now Pant has three innings left in this series. Pant can make his record better.

Pant’s thumb injury

On the first day of the Manchester Test of India’s wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant, Jofra Archer suffered a toe injury. Pant was putting a sweep shot, but instead of the ball on the bat, he started on his thumb. Rishabh Pant got stung by the pain of this injury. Pant had to go to retired hurt. Pant was also finding it difficult to bat on the second day of the match, but he came to bat while lame and played a historic half -century innings.

A Standing Ovation for Rishabh Pant at Old Trafford after he came out to bat despite an injury #WTC27 , #ENGVIND pic.twitter.com/w1w2gwuy48

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Lsg vs mi score first innings: Lucknow Super Giants have scored 203 runs while playing first. In this clash, LSG got a fierce start as Mitchell Marsh and Aidan Markram gave the team a very stormy start. Markram scored 53 runs and Mitchell Marsh scored 60 runs in a fiery manner. Rishabh Pant once again flopped, whose bat scored only 2 runs. In bowling for Mumbai, captain Hardik Pandya broke down on LSG batsmen, he took a total of 5 wickets.

There was a strong bowling in the death overs by Mumbai Indians. Earlier, MI bowlers also bowled strongly against Gujarat Titans in death overs. It seemed at a time like Mi bowlers would stop Lucknow below the 200 score, but in the last over, David Miller hit Lucknow beyond 200 by hitting a four and a six. However, in the end Hardik was overwhelmed on him, who took a total of 5 wickets in the match.

Hardik Pandya created history

Hardik Pandya has created history. He has taken 5 wickets while bowling in an innings for the first time in his 10 -year -long IPL career. Hardik has taken 72 wickets in his 140 matches IPL career so far. He took the wickets of Aden Markram, Nicholas Puran, Rishabh Pant, David Miller and Akashdeep in the match against Lucknow. He took 5 wickets for 36 runs in 4 overs spell.

Pant-ensuing fail

Lucknow Super Giants were given a great start by Mitchell Marsh and Aidan Markram. Marsh hit 60 runs in 31 balls, which showed that LSG could easily score a score of 230-240. But after the dismissal of him and Aidan Markram, the Lucknow team shattered. Orange Cap holder Nicholas Puran of IPL 2025 was dismissed for only 12 runs in 6 balls. At the same time, Rishabh Pant was dismissed for 2 and David Miller after scoring 27 runs this time.

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Rishabh pant runs in ipl 2025: Rishabh Pant’s IPL shows in 2025. Now his bat has been silent against Mumbai Indians. Pant’s form is in such a bad condition that he has been able to score only 19 runs in four innings of IPL 2025. In the match against Mumbai, he scored just 2 runs by playing 6 balls. Pant was caught by Hardik Pandya at the hands of Corbin Bask. Let us know that Pant has not been able to cross the double figure in terms of runs in 3 out of four matches so far.

19 runs in 4 innings, 27 crores of LSG useless

Lucknow Super Giants bought Rishabh Pant for Rs 27 crore. So far, even after playing four matches in IPL 2025, he has not been able to score equal to his price. Pant could not even open an account in the match against Delhi Capitals, after which he scored 15 runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad. At the same time, only 2 runs have been scored from Punjab Kings and now against Mumbai Indians.

Earlier, expensive players sold in IPL auction have been flopped. Last year, something similar happened with Mitchell Starc which proved to be very expensive for KKR. But Stark made a tremendous comeback in the knockout matches and played an important role in making Kolkata the champion. Now LSG fans can only expect that captain Pant return to form and cross his team’s fleet.

Sanjeev will again get scolded by Goenka!

Recently, Lucknow Super Giants received a crushing defeat by 8 wickets to Punjab Kings at their own home ground. After that a photo went viral, in which Lucknow team owner Sanjeev Goenka was seen raising his finger in front of Pant. Now after a useless performance against Mumbai, Pant may once again get scolded from Goenka.

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