New Delhi: Team India's wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant has created history in the Test match being played between India and Sri Lanka at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. He broke the 40-year-old record of former captain Kapil Dev by hitting a fifty in just 28 balls. Kapil Dev did the feat during the Karachi Test against Pakistan in 1982 by scoring a half-century in 30 balls.
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FIFTY!@RishabhPant17 surpasses Kapil Dev to score the fastest 50 by an Indian in Test cricket. It has come off 28 deliveries.
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At the same time, if we talk about scoring a half-century in the shortest ball in international cricket, then this record is with Pakistan's batsman Misbah-ul-Haq. Misbah, who was the former captain of Pakistan, scored a half-century in just 21 balls against Australia in the year 2014. However, when it comes to Rishabh Pant, he could not stay on the crease even after hitting the fastest fifty. He returned to the pavilion only after 50 runs. Let us inform that in this series, Pant has scored 185 runs in 3 innings at an average of 61.67, while this is his second fifty against Sri Lanka. During this his strike rate was 156.14. He hit seven fours and two sixes in his short but important innings.
Let us tell you that Rishabh Pant is the 13th batsman in the world to score the fastest half-century. However, the batsmen of India's top-order batsmen remained calm in this match. Captain Virat Kohli was dismissed after scoring 13 runs in just 16 balls. He was LBW by Jayavikrama. This is the 35th time in Tests that Kohli has fallen victim to LBW. The special thing is that after many years Kohli's average in Test cricket has come down to 50.
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