South Africa has defeated the Indian team 2-0 in the Test series at its home. Team India lost the second test by 408 runs, which is India’s biggest defeat in terms of runs in the history of test cricket. Rishabh Pant was captaining the Indian team in this match, hence the tag of biggest defeat may remain on Pant’s forehead for many years to come. On this shameful defeat, captain Rishabh Pant said that cricket cannot be taken lightly.

Take cricket lightly…

Captain Rishabh Pant said in the post-match presentation, “This defeat is very disappointing, we need to do better as a team. We also have to praise the opposition team because they played better cricket than us. A series like this is very difficult in the beginning, then you start thinking too much, so you have to learn and stay united.”

Rishabh Pant further said, “Obviously they (South Africa) dominated the entire series. You cannot take cricket lightly, even if you are playing on your home ground. We have to keep our mindset clear.”

Shameful record added to Rishabh Pant’s name

Rishabh Pant has now become the Indian captain to suffer the biggest defeat of runs in Test cricket. South Africa has defeated Team India by 408 runs in Guwahati. Earlier, India’s biggest defeat in Test was 342 runs. In the year 2004, Australia defeated the Indian team by 342 runs. The record of biggest defeat as Indian captain was in the name of Rahul Dravid for the last 21 years, but now Rishabh Pant has gone ahead in this list.

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IND vs Eng Test Series Stats: The Test series of India and England started from June 20. After two Tests, both countries are on par with each other. Host England won by 5 wickets in the Leeds Test. At the same time, in the second Test played in Birmingham, Team India retaliated and registered a big win by 336 runs. This was also India’s first win in Test cricket at Edgbaston Ground. So far some Indian players have performed strongly. Here, look at those 5 Indian players who have been the top performance in the Test series against England till now.

Shubman Gill cross 500- As a captain, Shubman Gill’s bat is spewing fire. He has scored 585 runs in just four innings, of which his average is 146. Gill has so far scored 2 centuries and a double century in this series. He is the highest run -scorer in the series so far. He scored 430 runs in both innings of the Birmingham Test.

Akashdeep shines in a single match- Jasprit Bumrah was rested from the second Test, Akashdeep was replaced in the playing XI in his place. Hardly anyone would have thought that this player would contribute a lot in India’s victory. He took 4 wickets in the first innings of the second Test and 6 wickets in the second innings. He is the highest wicket -taking bowler for India so far in the series.

Rishabh Pant rains runs- Rishabh Pant is raining runs after becoming the vice -captain of the Indian Test team. He has so far scored 342 runs in four innings at a tremendous average of 85.50. He has hit 2 centuries and one Pachasa in this series. He is third in terms of scoring runs in the series.

Mohammad Siraj is boring havoc- Mohammad Siraj, who took only 2 wickets in the first Test match, was severely criticized. In the Birmingham Test, he brilliantly led the Indian bowling unit. He had helped Team India a lead of 180 runs by taking 6 wickets in the first innings of the second match. He took 7 wickets in both innings. He has taken 9 wickets in the series so far.

Bumrah is a trump card Jasprit Bumrah did not play in the second Test match, but in the first Test, he contributed significantly in giving India an edge with 5 wickets. Bumrah took 5 wickets in the first innings of that match. He also made many chances in the second innings, but could not take any wickets.

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Rishabh pant century: Rishabh Pant has created history in the first Test match against England. He has become the first Indian wicketkeeper batsman in Test history to have scored a century in both innings of a match. He has already become the Indian wicketkeeper to score the most centuries in the red-ball format. Pant scored 134 runs in the first innings and has now completed his century in 120 balls in the second innings.

The Indian team played their first official Test match in the year 1932. So far, no wicketkeeper batsman in 93 -year -old Indian Test cricket history was able to score a century in both innings of Test match. Now Rishabh Pant has become the first Indian wicketkeeper to do so. Pant has also become the first wicketkeeper batsman in the world, who has scored a century in both innings while playing on a foreign tour.

Pant is the first Indian wicketkeeper to do so, but this record was first created by Andy Flower in the world. Zimbabwe’s Andy Flower was the first wicketkeeper in the world to score a century in both innings of a Test match. He did this in the match against South Africa. Rishabh Pant has also become the first Indian batsman who has scored a century in both innings of a Test match while playing in England.

Pant became the 7th Indian

Please tell that Rishabh Pant is a total of seventh Indian batsman, who has scored a century in 2 innings of the same Test match. Sunil Gavaskar has done this 3 times, Rahul Dravid had also done this twice, Vijay Hazare, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane. Now Rishabh Pant’s name has also been added to the list of these veterans.

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