4 records set by Rishabh Pant during Edgbaston Test

Edgbaston Test The rescheduled fifth Test between India and England is currently underway at Edgbaston, Birmingham.

Rishabh Pant Pant scored 146 off 111 in India’s first innings and followed that with a brilliant fifty in the second (57 off 86).

Pant breaks 72-year-old record Pant broke the 72-yr-old record for the highest total runs in a Test by a visiting wicketkeeper in England. He went past WI’s Clyde Walcott, who had scored 14 and 168 not out. Walcott – 182 runs; Pant – 203 runs.

Second wicketkeeper Pant became the second Indian 'keeper-batsman after Farokh Engineer to score a hundred and a fifty in the same Test. Engineer had hit 121 and 66 against England in Mumbai in 1973.

Outside Asia Pant also became the first Asian wicketkeeper-batsman to score a century and fifty in the same Test outside Asia.

Second Indian Pant became only the second Indian batsman, after Virat Kohli, to score 200 or more runs in a SENA Test in the last decade. Kohli has done it five times, Pant once.