In the first innings, team India scored only 46 runs for 10 wicket. In reply, New Zealand scored a huge score of 402 runs in the first innings. India bounce back brilliantly in the second innings, has scored 344 before rain delay the match in Bengaluru. Now the Indian team is just 12 runs behind New Zealand. Rishabh Pant scored a half-century in this innings and is still present at the crease with Sarfaraz khan Sarfaraz has scored his first international hundred in this innings.
In the second innings of India, there was a 113-run partnership for the fourth wicket. In between, there was a time where DRS was taken twice on two balls but could not succeed in dismissing Pant. This happened during the 66th over of the second innings where DRS was taken twice on two consecutive balls.
In the Bengaluru Test match, Rishabh Pant hit three sixes so far in the second innings to touch new record in Test cricket. Pant has left behind legendary Kapil Dev in this matter, who had hit a total of 61 sixes in 131 Test matches. At the same time, Pant has recorded so far 62 sixes. Virender Sehwag is at number one in this list, who has hit 90 sixes in 103 matches in Test cricket.
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Rishabh Pant is currently ranked 28th in terms of hitting the most sixes in Test cricket, while in the Bengaluru Test match, if he manages to hit 3 more sixes in his innings, then both Carl Hooper and AB de Villiers will leave both of them behind. At the same time, Rishabh Pant has so far hit a total of 45 sixes in the history of the World Test Championship.
