Despite the fracture in the thumb, wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant will be available for batting in the fourth Test being played in Manchester. The BCCI has released a big update on Rishabh Pant. Please tell that Pant was injured while batting for 37 runs on Wednesday on the first day of this test. Pant was injured in an attempt to play reverse lap shot off Chris Woakes.

The BCCI has made it clear that Rishabh Pant will no longer do wicketkeeping in this Test match. In the Manchester Test instead of Pant, Dhruv Jurlel will now do wicketkeeping. The BCCI has also said that Rishabh Pant will be available for batting if definitely falls. The whole world has been surprised by this update of BCCI.

The BCCI said in its statement, “Rishabh Pant was injured on the first day of the Manchester Test. His right leg was hurt. Because of this he will no longer be able to do wicketkeeping in this Test match. His Dhruv Jurlel has been entrusted with the responsibility of wicketkeeping. However, despite being injured, he will remain available with the team on the other hand.”

How was Rishabh Pant injured?

On the first day of the Manchester Test, Rishabh Pant tried to hit a reverse sweep shot off the ball of Chris Woakes in the 68th over, but he missed the ball. For this reason, the ball started to go straight on his right leg. On one hand, the England team appealed for LBW, which was rejected by the umpire, on the other hand, Pant started to lame in pain. After investigation by the medical team, Pant went out of the ground. There was blood coming out of Pant’s leg, swelling was also clear. Pant was then taken to the hospital for a scan. The scan revealed that his thumb fracture.

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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