India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant played a brilliant knock of 61 runs from 33 deliveries on the second day of the fifth Border-Gavaskar series Test to script history in the longest format of the game. Pant slammed the second-fastest Test fifty by an Indian batter to keep the visitors’ innings afloat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 27-year completed his half-century in just 29 deliveries, just behind his own record of a 28-ball half-century against Sri Lanka in Bengaluru in 2022. Pant was eventually dismissed by Australia skipper Pat Cummins to restrict India to 124\/5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pant headed back to the dugout after playing a highly entertaining knock comprising of 6 boundaries and 4 massive sixes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fastest half-centuries for India in Test cricket<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 28 balls – Rishabh Pant vs Sri Lanka, Bengaluru, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n 29 balls – Rishabh Pant vs Australia, Sydney, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n 30 balls – Kapil Dev vs Pakistan, Karachi, 1982<\/p>\n\n\n\n 31 balls – Shardul Thakur vs England, The Oval, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n 31 balls – Yashasvi Jaiswal vs Bangladesh, Kanpur, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n The explosive half-century also saw Pant became the only player in history to score 2 fifties in under 30 deliveries in red-ball cricket. This was his first fifty of the series and the second-fastest by anyone on Australian soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following the end of second day’s play, India pacer Prasidh Krishna highly praised Pant’s fearless innings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “All of us were sitting together, the bowlers were sitting together and watching him bat and we definitely said if I was sitting at home and watching this, I would have loved it. To be able to do it from the ground, I mean, nothing like it. I know it’s a lot of risk, but that’s the way the game is played today,” Krishna said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 27-year-old played a sensational innings of 61 runs from just 33 deliveries against Australia in Sydney to break numerous records <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":1220601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[155,191,181,4326,249,1083],"yoast_head":"\n