Rishabh Pant is making the news as he has got his name slammed in the record book. He now holds the record for the fastest century by an Indian in the first class cricket. He has completed his century in just 48 balls playing against Jharkhand in Trivandrum. It was a Ranji trophy encounter. He has finally dismissed on 135 playing 67 deliveries hitting 8 fours and 13 sixes in his boosting inning.
The current season is going quite good for the youngster as he has scored 799 runs in 7 innings maintaining an average of 131 with a strike rate of 113. it was his 4th hundred of the season and he has hit 44 sixes in 5 matches of the season so far.
En route to his record-breaking ton, Pant eclipsed a 28-year old record set by former Tamil Nadu opener VB Chandrasekhar, who reached the three-figure mark off 56 balls against Rest of India during the Irani Cup match of the 1988-89 series. Incidentally, that knock helped Chandrasekhar greatly as he made it to the Indian team for the tour of New Zealand in 1990.
In all first-class cricket across the globe, late Australian cricketer David Hooks had smashed the fastest hundred, off 34 balls, during a Sheffield Shield match in 1982. He was playing for South Australia against Victoria at the Adelaide Oval.
"I was hurt after not being picked for India A's tour of Australia. I then promised myself that I should be scoring so many runs that no one can ignore me," the stockily-built Pant had told PTI after his triple hundred against Maharashtra last month.
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