Desk. Rishabh Pant batted brilliantly in the first innings of the second match of the Test series being played against Sri Lanka and achieved a new milestone. Now he has become the Indian batsman with the highest run scorer in the World Test Championship. He left his captain Shubman Gill behind in this innings. Not only this, he has also managed to reach very close to the top 10.

Joe Root is the highest run-scorer in the history of the World Test Championship, having scored 6717 runs in 78 matches. Apart from Joe Root, no batsman has been able to score even five thousand runs so far. The special thing is that there is no Indian batsman in the top 10 in the list of batsmen who have scored the most runs. Meanwhile, Rishabh Pant has now overtaken Gill and reached number 13.

Rishabh Pant has scored 2948 runs in 42 test matches so far. This includes 6 centuries and 18 half-centuries. Earlier, Gill was at number one, but he has moved to second place. He has scored 2917 runs in the World Test Championship by playing 42 matches. Gill has scored 10 centuries and 9 half-centuries. However, in the next innings of the match, Gill will again have a chance to overtake Pant.

In the first innings of the second Test being played between India and Sri Lanka in Colombo, Pant played an inning of 63 runs on 89 balls. He hit 6 fours and 2 sixes. With this, he has also become the third batsman to hit the most number of sixes in Tests. He has done the work of leaving Adam Gilchrist behind. Now only Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes are left ahead of him. The Indian team will play the Test match against Sri Lanka directly in November. When Team India will go to New Zealand for a two-Test series. This series will be very important.