A total of 17 wickets fell on the first day of the first match of the 5-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia played at the Optus Stadium in Perth. While Team India was restricted to 150 runs in its first innings, hosts Australia also lost 7 wickets to reach 67 at the end of the day. In such a situation, the second day of this match will be very important for both teams. At the same time, the star batsman of the Indian team, Rishabh Pant, after arriving in Australia, definitely did a great feat with his innings of 37 runs played in the Perth test match, based on which he broke a record of 47 years. .
Pant is the player who scored the most runs as a guest batsman in Australia.
Rishabh Pant faced 78 balls in Team India’s first innings in the Perth Test match and scored a total of 37 runs with the help of 3 fours and a six. With this, Pant has now become the leading run-scorer as a guest batsman in Australia. In this matter, Pant has broken the 47-year-old record that stood in the name of England wicketkeeper-batsman Alan Knott, who as an overseas wicketkeeper had scored 643 runs in 22 Test innings in Australia at an average of 33.84, which included one century and four and a half centuries. Knott last played for Australia in 1977. It took Pant only 8 Tests and 13 innings to break this record. Pant has so far scored 661 runs in Australia at an average of 60.09, which includes two half-centuries and a century.
Partnership with Reddy took score beyond 100
When Rishabh Pant took the field to bat in the Perth test match, the Indian team had lost 3 wickets to get a score of 32. After this, Pant stood at one end until he got a score of 73, but the team Indian had lost 6 wickets. From here, Pant got support from Nitish Reddy, who was playing his first Test match, with whom his 48-run partnership played an important role in taking the Indian team’s score beyond 100. Nitish Reddy played an innings of 41 runs and team India was able to reach the score of 150.
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