Rishabh Pant missed out on his seventh Check hundred for India when he fell on 99 in the course of the first Check towards New Zealand on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Saturday.
Batting in India’s second-innings comeback after being skittled for 46, their lowest Check rating, Pant walked in at No. 5 on day 4 and partnered centurion Sarfaraz Khan. The southpaw was a run away from his hundred earlier than being cleaned up by Will O’Rourke off an inside-edge. Pant’s innings lasted 105 balls with 9 fours and 5 sixes.
Pant is the second Indian wicket-keeper after MS Dhoni to be dismissed on 99 in a Check. He has been dismissed seven instances within the nineties in Exams, solely second to Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid amongst Indians.
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Pant was eyeing his second hundred in three Exams since his comeback after a protracted harm layoff after the fateful automobile accident in December 2022. In solely his second innings since his return final month, Pant cracked his sixth century towards Bangladesh in Chennai.
Pant was returning to play on day 4 after being absent from the sphere for the whole thing of Day 3.
Pant suffered a knock on his knee whereas wicket-keeping on Day 2 on Thursday. The 27-year-old missed a stumping likelihood towards Devon Conway off Ravindra Jadeja’s bowling and received hit on the knee after he failed to gather the ball. He went off the sphere instantly and was changed by Dhruv Jurel for the rest of the day.
Most Check nineties (by Indians)
10 = Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid
7 – Rishabh Pant
Indians to be out on 99 and 199 in Exams
| Participant | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Opposition | Floor | Match Date |
| P Roy | 99 | – | – | – | v Australia | Delhi | 12 Dec 1959 |
| ML Jaisimha | 99 | – | 12 | – | v Pakistan | Kanpur | 16 Dec 1960 |
| AL Wadekar | 99 | 146 | 12 | – | v Australia | Melbourne | 30 Dec 1967 |
| RF Surti | 99 | – | – | – | v New Zealand | Auckland | 07 Mar 1968 |
| M Azharuddin | 199 | – | 16 | 1 | v Sri Lanka | Kanpur | 17 Dec 1986 |
| NS Sidhu | 99 | 228 | 9 | 2 | v Sri Lanka | Bengaluru | 26 Jan 1994 |
| SC Ganguly | 99 | 188 | 13 | – | v Sri Lanka | Nagpur | 26 Nov 1997 |
| SC Ganguly | 99 | 159 | 13 | – | v England | Nottingham | 08 Aug 2002 |
| V Sehwag | 99 | 101 | 15 | – | v Sri Lanka | Colombo (SSC) | 26 Jul 2010 |
| MS Dhoni | 99 | 246 | 8 | 1 | v England | Nagpur | 13 Dec 2012 |
| M Vijay | 99 | 234 | 10 | 2 | v Australia | Adelaide | 09 Dec 2014 |
| KL Rahul | 199 | 311 | 16 | 3 | v England | Chennai | 16 Dec 2016 |
| Rishabh Pant | 99 | 105 | 9 | 5 | v New Zealand | Bengaluru | 19 Oct 2024 |