Sydney: When the Indian cricket team was struggling at 59/3 during India’s second innings in the fifth Test in Sydney against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Rishab Pant entered at number 5 and charged down the pitch to smash a sixer over long-on off Boland’s delivery on Saturday. Scoring 61 runs off 33 balls with the help of six boundaries and four sixes, Pant set a new record for the most Test sixes by a visiting batter in Australia, breaking Chris Gayle’s long-standing record.
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Pant now leads the list, followed by Chris Gayle and Viv Richards with 12 each. Stuart Broad smashed 11, while Clive Lloyd and Rohit Sharma have 10 each, reported cricketaddictor.com. Pant also hit the second-fastest fifty for India in Test cricket, reaching the landmark off just 29 balls.
Here’s a list of India’s fastest 50 in Test
28 Rishabh Pant vs SL Bengaluru 2022
29 Rishabh Pant vs Aus Sydney 2025
30 Kapil Dev vs Pak Karachi 1982
31 Shardul Thakur vs Eng The Oval 2021
31 Yashasvi Jaiswal vs Ban Kanpur 2024
India leads by 145 runs at the end of Day 2
As the day came to an end, India scored 141/6 with Ravindra Jadeja (8*) and Washington Sundar (6*) standing unbeaten at the crease. India is leading by 145 runs. Rishabh Pant played a brilliant knock of 61 off 33 balls. On the Australian side, Scott Boland took four wickets. India had bundled out Australia for 181 and took a lead by four runs, earlier in the day. India had opted for an attacking strategy in their second innings.
