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Rishabh Pant: India's Unorthodox Hero

By AFP News June 24, 2025 • 08:45 AM View: 2512

Rishabh Pant's swashbuckling style may not be the textbook technique of great Indian batsman of old, but the diminutive wicketkeeper wrote his name into the history books at Headingley on Monday.

The 27-year-old became the first Indian to score hundreds in both innings of a Test against England to give his side the edge heading into a fascinating final day of the first of a five-match series.

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