IND vs ENG: Pant on verge of history as big record beckons ahead of 4th Test

Despite lingering concerns implicit his fitness, Rishabh Pant has signaled his intent to play successful the important 4th Test against England successful Manchester with a almighty video montage of his grooming league - and helium whitethorn beryllium connected the brink of scripting a monolithic Indian cricket record.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!The Team India vice-captain, who suffered a achy digit wounded during the 3rd Test astatine Lord’s, shared a 31-second clip connected societal media connected Sunday showing himself batting fluently, sprinting, diving successful fielding drills, and adjacent kicking a shot - with nary disposable signs of discomfort.

Pant had walked disconnected the tract connected Day 1 of the Lord’s Test aft taking a stroke connected his near scale digit portion attempting a diving stop.

While Dhruv Jurel took implicit wicketkeeping duties, Pant returned to bat, defying symptom and scoring 74 successful the archetypal innings.Now, if helium plays astatine Old Trafford from July 23, the 27-year-old is connected the verge of entering Indian cricket past books.

Pant has deed 88 sixes successful conscionable 46 Tests, and needs conscionable 3 much to surpass Virender Sehwag’s all-time Indian grounds of 90 Test sixes. He is presently tied for 2nd with Rohit Sharma (88 sixes successful 67 Tests), with legends MS Dhoni (78) and Ravindra Jadeja (74) completing the apical five.

Pant’s unthinkable six-hitting quality has been a hallmark of his fearless batting successful red-ball cricket, often changing the momentum of a lucifer successful a azygous session.His imaginable instrumentality for the 4th Test could besides beryllium captious to India's chances of leveling the five-match series, presently led 2-1 by England.