Shubman Gill equaled Dhawan's record, Rishabh Pant became the first player in the world to complete...

With outstanding batting on the second day, opener Shubman Gill and wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant have put the Indian squad in a favourable spot, which was in a difficult spot in the third and final Test of the three-Test series against New Zealand. Gill took 66 balls to reach his half-century, and Rishabh Pant took 36 balls to reach his fifty. With this half-century, Gill has equaled the record of former Indian batsman Shikhar Dhawan. Rishabh Pant hit two sixes at the same time, creating Test cricket history. He set a record that has never been surpassed by any player across the world.

Subsequently, with this half-century in this game, Shubman Gill has joined the club of players who have hit 12 or more 50-plus scores in the longest format of cricket. Gill now boasts 7 half-centuries and 5 Test hundreds in his tally. He has joined Shikhar Dhawan at the spot, who had testified 7 centuries and 5 half-centuries. Besides these two, Nari Contractor and Anshuman Gaikwad have 12-12 fifty-plus scores. Sachin Tendulkar had scored most 50+ scores 119 times.

Rishabh Pant hit 2 sixes in his half-century innings against New Zealand. With this, Pant's total number of sixes in Test cricket has become 66, which he has hit in 65 Test innings. Rishabh Pant has done this feat while batting 65 times in 38 Tests. Pant has now become the only player in the list of batsmen who have played at least 50 innings, who has more sixes than innings.

Talking about the match, New Zealand's entire team, who won the toss and batted first, collapsed at 235 runs. Daryl Mitchell scored 75 and Will Young scored 71 runs for the Kiwi team. Ravindra Jadeja took 5 wickets while Washington Sundar took away 4 wickets for India. Apart from this, no other bowler could leave his mark.

India, following New Zealand, received a fine start in the first innings. But on a score of 25, Matt Henry provided India with the first jolt in the shape of Rohit Sharma for 18 runs. Following that, Yashasvi and Gill had just managed to handle the innings when Yashasvi accounted for 30 runs at the score 78 by Ajaz Patel. The succeeding one, a night watchman Mohammed Siraj was brought into the game after watching a few overs, fell prey to Patel on zero on the very first ball. Then the fourth blow came in the form of Virat Kohli, who got run out trying to steal a run. In this way, India scored 86 runs for the fall of four wickets till stumps on the first day.

Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant batted excellently on the second day and finished their respective half-centuries, but at a score of 180, Pant missed his wicket for 60 runs on Sodhi's ball. After that Jadeja came and went after scoring 14 runs. After this Sarfaraz came in and fell prey to Patel on zero. Then on the score of 227, Shubman Gill was caught by Blundell on Ajaz Patel's ball with 90 runs and missed the century.