Rishabh Pant resumed his innings from yesterday’s score of 37 in 48 balls with two fours and one six to his name
It turned out to be a major blow for India as Rishabh Pant had to leave the field in middle of the innings.
Rishabh Pant had to walk out of the field after suffering an injury on his leg while facing Chris Woakes during the third session of the day.
The fourth Test is set to be played from July 23 to 27 at the Emirates Old Trafford in Manchester.
After the first Test was ended, the fans were curious to know whether Rishabh Pant will play in the fourth Test or not.
While the Indian team will return to action from July 23, Man Utd will be seen playing against West Ham in a Club Friendly on Sunday, July 27.
Manjrekar feels Rishabh Pant deserves to play with the attacking approach as England are now scared of the wicketkeeper batter
The ex-India stalwart has advised India’s stumper-batter to play proper cricketing shots in the ongoing England Test series
The fourth Test is scheduled to be played from July 23 to July 27 at the Emirates Old Trafford in Manchester.
Notably, Rishabh Pant sustained a finger injury on the opening day of third Test at Lord’s. In his absence, Dhruv Jurel kept the wickets.
The fourth Test of the series will be played at Old Trafford Cricket Ground in Greater Manchester from July 23 to July 27.
Apart from Pant, Siraj also took to Instagram to share a message with a positive intent, and acknowledging what Test cricket has on offer.
The fourth Test is scheduled to be played from July 23 to July 27 at the Emirates Old Trafford in Manchester.
With the Lord’s Test moving into the final day, India need 135 runs to go 2-1 up in the series, whereas England will look to get six wickets at the earliest.
In Pant’s absence, Dhruv Jurel is keeping the wickets on Day 4 of the Lord’s Test.
England currently lead by 2 runs after they bundled out India at 387 on Day 3 of Lord’s Test.
His stump mic conversation with KL Rahul showed how the two players were constantly discussing strategy as they mounted 141-run stand for the fourth wicket
“Rishabh Pant still recovering from injury”, said BCCI in an update on his injury, which led to Dhruv Jurel continue wicketkeeping on day two at Lord’s
After the dismissal of Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett, it is the pair of Joe Root and Ollie Pope, who are at the crease for England during the post-lunch session at Lord’s in London
With Team India heading to take England in the third Test to be played at the iconic Lord’s, Pant appeared in front of the media and answered questions from reporters
Rishabh Pant departed after scoring 65 off 58 balls in the second innings on Day 4 of the ongoing second Test.
Rishabh Pant scored 65 runs from just 58 balls with a strike rate of 112 against England in second Test
England skipper Ben Stokes has commented about him as one of the most dangerous players in world cricket and a personal favourite to watch.
Out of 3200 runs Pant scored in his 44 Test matches in his career, 1033 runs came against England in just 13 matches at an average of 46.95 with five hundreds.
Rishabh Pant is currently with Team India in England for the five-match Test series. He scored twin centuries in the first Test in Leeds, however, the team lost the match by five wickets.
Pant recently grabbed a lot of eyeballs for his stunning twin centuries against England in the first Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy played at Headingley.
While talking on his YouTube channel Ash ki Baat he lauded Rishabh Pant while sarcastically questioning the inability of lower order batsmen to contribute.
Prithvi Shaw hasn’t played any international game for Team India for the last four years. In 2021, he last donned Team India’s jersey in a T20 International (T20I) game against Sri Lanka held in Colombo.
Rishabh Pant became just the second wicket-keeper behind Zimbabwe’s Andy Flower to score two centuries in the same Test match when contributing 134 and 118 in Leeds contest.
As Ravindra Jadeja was getting ready to bowl his over, Rishabh Pant started commenting near the stump mic for star India all-rounder.
Thus far, only two Test batters have achieved the great feat!
With Pant’s new celebration style gaining a lot of attention, it’s time to know why he did it after scoring century.
Pant admitted the offence and accepted the sanction proposed by Richie Richardson of the Emirates ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees.
England have scored 21 runs with no loss of wickets by the end of day four.
One of the common things between Rahul and Pant is that both the wicketkeeper batters have captained Lucknow Super Giants in the Indian Premier League.
This was his second ton in the same Test match after he scored 134 runs off 178 balls in the first innings.
In the second innings, Rishabh Pant has looked brilliant thus far. The left-handed wicket-keeper batter, along with Rahul, has built a 114-run stand.
Both Rahul and Pant maintained a 195-run partnership for the fourth wicket.
Pant, who performed a backflip after reaching his hundred in the first innings, came up with a simple celebration after reaching the milestone in the second innings.
Rishabh Pant, who scored 134(178) runs in the first innings is also looking in good touch in the second innings along with KL Rahul as duo has added more than 70 runs for the fourth wicket.
The incident happened when Rishabh Pant wanted Paul Reiffel to change the ball, deeming it out of shape, but when the on-field umpire determined it to be completely fine.
His comments came after a few months back Sunil Gavaskar slammed Rishabh Pant on air during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25.
Rishabh Pant’s first instance of a backflip celebration came in the IPL 2025 during Lucknow Super Giants’ match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru.
England have added 209/3 in 49 overs in reply to India’s 471. With Ollie Pope unbeaten at 100 off 131 deliveries, he is joined by Harry Brook (0* off 12) as England trail India by 262 runs at the end of Day 2.
With the 27-year-old’s hundred, India got three centuries in the innings as Shubman Gill and opener Yashasvi Jaiswal also scored tons earlier.
Pant is the third centurion for India in this game. Before him, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Gill struck their hundreds.
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The left-handed batter reached the three-figure score in 146 balls after hitting Shoaib Bashir for a six over cow corner region.
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As day 1 heading towards its conclusion, Shubman received a warning from Pant when the former played a shot in the air against spinner Shoaib Bashir.
Rishabh Pant has looked phenomenal in this contest. The southpaw, accompanying his captain Gill, has stitched a crucial 117-run stand so far. He brought his 16th Test fifty in just 91 balls. If
The 38-year-old also believes England’s Chris Woakes might also end up as the most successful bowler in the competition if the veteran speedster appears for his side in all five games.
For starters, Rishabh Pant would want to play cautiously against the experienced and seasoned campaigner that is Woakes.
During the presser, Pant was asked about his relations with Gill. Responding to the query, he said that he has an amiable relationship with Gill on and off the field.
Pant and Shubman Gill have to be solid in this tour as their critics feel they got the leadership responsibilities despite not playing quality cricket in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25.
England and India are set to play the first Test at Headingley in Leeds from Friday, June 20 onwards.
Virat Kohli invited a few players from the Indian team to his house in London including the likes of new Test captain Shubman Gill, vice-captain Rishabh Pant and fast bowler Mohammed Siraj.
During the practice session, Rishabh Pant smashed Washington Sundar for a huge six by standing down on one knee. Eventually, Pant’s six ended up breaking the roof of the stadium upon landing.
The highly-anticipated five-match Test series is set to kickstart from June 20 with the first Test scheduled to be played in Leeds.
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In his conversation with Raj Shamani, Vijay Mallya also remembered bidding for Virat Kohli following the right-handed batter’s scintillating batting and captaincy performance for India in the U-19 World Cup 2008.
Before leaving for England, Pant was spotted by paparazzo at the Mumbai airport.
Having said that, let us break further his tally of 12 Tests versus England.
RCB spinner Suyash Sharma who was supposed to be in the playing XI as RCB were bowling first, wasn’t included in the team and was a substitute in the sheet submitted by Jitesh Sharma.
R. Ashwin, who grabbed the headlines several times for his mankading acts on the cricketing field several times, wasn’t happy with Rishabh Pant after he cancelled Digvesh Rathi’s appeal.
Shardul, who played his last international Test game in December 2023, will be seen playing under Gill’s leadership in the tour coming ahead.
Rishabh Pant has been fined INR 30 Lakh after his team was found guilty of the offence for the third time in this season.
He later shared photos on Instagram, captioning them, “Rishabh… just superb.”
During Krunal Pandya’s over, the bowler bowled an extremely wide yorker to the left-hander, who almost jumped out of his stance to connect the ball.
Pant came heavily on RCB bowlers and smashed an unbeaten 118 off just 61. His extraordinary innings was studded with 19 boundaries (11 fours and eight maximums).
Rishabh Pant smashed a boundary against Bhuvneshwar Kumar to reach his second IPL hundred.
Rishabh Pant was picked for a whopping INR 27 crore by LSG in the mega auction making him the most expensive player in the tournament.
Rishabh Pant also seemed to be struggling to walk when he was interacting with the fans.
Rishabh Pant’s no-look six has come at a time when he has struggled to find any rhythm and consistency with the bat for LSG in the IPL 2025.
Journalist Bhola posted news through his X handle on May 21, claiming LSG will release Pant prior to IPL 2026.
LSG captain has been facing stern criticism for his horrendous batting show in the tournament as he is the costliest player in IPL.
The southpaw, who has looked underconfident with his bat throughout the competition, put up a disastrous show against Hyderabad. This time, he fell against pacer Eshan Malinga after scoring only seven off six.
After his dismissal, Nicholas Pooran was seen fuming in the dressing room as he threw away his pads straight into the glass shield in anger.
The LSG captain, who has struggled to find form throughout the season, was dismissed cheaply for just 7 runs off 6 balls.
He has scored the highest number of runs against SRH in his IPL career so far, including his best knock of an unbeaten 128 off 63 balls in IPL 2018.
Bumrah, who guided India to an emphatic 295-run win against Australia in the Test match in Perth last year, was the top contender to become India’s next red-ball captain a few days back.
K Srikkanth also advised the team management to go with either KL Rahul or Rishabh Pant for Test captaincy if Jasprit Bumrah remains unfit or unavailable.
India’s probable squad for England series
Pant is currently the skipper of Lucknow Super Giants in the ongoing IPL season which has been suspended for a week.
While a confirmation on the same is likely to come out later this month as the selection committee is in discussion to select the squad for the upcoming England tour, which is set to commence on June 20.
Speaking of the franchise, LSG currently sit at the seventh place with five wins and six losses from 11 games.
He achieved the feat after shattering Murali Vijay’s record of 127 (56) for Chennai Super Kings against Rajasthan Royals in 2010.
Noting Pant’s underwhelming performance at the ongoing T20 event, Iceland Cricket has named him captain of their team ‘IPL 2025 frauds and scammers.’
Rishabh Pant hasn’t been able to live up to the expectations in the ongoing season so far as he could only amass 128 runs in 11 matches at an underwhelming average of 12.80 and a strike rate of 99.22.
In the eighth over of the second innings, he stepped out of the crease to play a stroke towards the off-side against Azmatullah Omarzai and lost his wicket.
Being the most expensive buy in IPL history, Rishabh Pant had a forgettable season with the bat this year where he could only amass only 128 runs in 11 matches at an average of 12.80.
Following Pant’s underwhelming batting and captaincy performances, Finch has advised the LSG captain to give up his gloves or the remainder of the tournament.
Rishabh Pant has been able to score only 128 runs in the ongoing IPL season at an underwhelming average of 12.80 with one fifty.
LSG skipper Rishabh Pant still remains confident of qualifying into the playoffs after winning their next three matches.
This victory propelled PBKS to a stronger position in the points table, enhancing their prospects for playoff qualification.
At the age of 19 years, the left-hander looked fearless and single-handedly guided Delhi to a win in a high-scoring encounter.
Amit Mishra shattered all the negative regarding the franchise owners and said that they never raised their voice against any player in the dressing room.
The southpaw kicked off his innings confidently by hitting a four against Will Jacks but in the next delivery, England bowler got the southpaw caught at the hands of Karn Sharma.
Both the wicketkeeper batters have met with an car accident in thee past and went on to make a great comeback in their career.
In the IPL 2025, it’s witnessed that the pitch controversy is making a lot of headlines since the initial stage of the tournament.