Rishabh Pant vs Adam Gilchrist: Comparing the two wicketkeepers after 34 Tests

Two of the greatest entertainers that red-ball cricket has seen - Adam Gilchrist and Rishabh Pant - have eerily similar numbers. So much so that the comparisons have already begun between the two. 

“Oh, he’s [closest to me], I reckon he [Pant] attacks a bit more than even I did. I played an aggressive brand for the time. But Rishabh, he looks fearless. I like his ability to occasionally put the foot on the brake and absorb a bit of pressure,” Gilchrist said on Cricket.com’s ‘Unwind’.

While Gilchrist applauded Pant’s batting abilities, calling him more aggressive than him, what do the numbers say? 

After exactly 34 Tests, the similarities between the two are striking. In contrast, Pant (2,419) has toppled Gilchrist’s tally of runs (2,282). Gilchrist has a one-up on Pant in terms of every other metric. 

The former Australian wicketkeeper has a better average (58.51) than Pant (44.8) and a strike rate of 80.4, far higher than the Indian wicketkeeper’s 74.1. Incidentally, both the southpaws have the same number of centuries (6) after 34 Tests. Even in terms of half-centuries, Gilchrist has one half-century than the Indian. 

What’s the most striking is that both of them have scored almost the same number of boundaries after 34 Tests, with Gilchrist just edging Pant by two boundaries.

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