Leeds, June 23 -- Rishabh Pant etched his name in cricketing folklore at Headingley on Monday, becoming the first Indian batsman to score centuries in both innings of a Test in England, and only the second designated wicketkeeper in Test history to do so, after Zimbabwe's Andy Flower.
Pant lit up the Test with a masterful 134 in the first innings and backed it up with a sparkling 118 off 140 balls in the second, laced with 15 fours and 3 sixes. His second hundred was a test of patience and poise - he spent 26 tense deliveries in the nineties before calmly cutting Shoaib Bashir for a single to bring up the milestone. The celebration was trademark Pant - helmet off, a hand cupped to his ear, and a warm embrace with KL Rahul, even as Sunil Ga...