Rishabh Pant Slams Historic IPL Ton vs Virat Kohli's RCB. 'Somersault' Celebration Is Even More Special. Watch

Rishabh Pant saved his best for the last in IPL 2025 as the star wicketkeeper-batter slammed his second ton in the T20 franchise league by toying with the Royal Challengers Bengaluru bowlers in an IPL 2025 match. Though LSG are out of the IPL 2025 playoff race, Rishabh Pant produced one of the most entertaining knocks in IPL history as he slammed the ton in just 54 balls. Pant stayed unbeaten on 118* with the help of eight sixes and 11 fours. 

What was even more special after the ton was Rishabh Pant's celebration. After facing lot of criticism scoring just 151 runs before this match, Rishabh ant turned up the heat to score the scintillating ton and then did a somersault celebration. 

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Throughout this season, Pant struggled to find his range, striking at a mere 107 and the skipper's underwhelming efforts with the bat had a huge impact on the fortunes of the Lucknow side.

But Pant rewrote the script on the night, hitting the ball with the required amount of power and his strike-rate was hovering around 200.

Once he refrained from over-hitting the ball, timing too returned to Pant's batting automatically.

The left-hander started the carnage by clattering Yash Dayal for 18 runs in the fourth over that included a sequence of 6, 4,4.

Pant only grew in confidence from that point, and it rubbed on his partner Marsh as well.

The Aussie batter started a bit slow, reaching 19 off his first 16 balls but from there 'Bison' took his batting to a different level, starting with a pulled six off Romario Shepherd.

Pant soon reached his fifty, second of the season for him, off 29 balls, hitting leg-spinner Suyash Sharma for two successive fours.

Marsh, who crossed 600 runs for his finest IPL season in a decade, went past his fifty in 31 balls with a six off Suyash.

However, Marsh could not go further as he snicked Bhuvneshwar Kumar to stumper Jitesh Sharma, who once again stood as stand-in skipper as Rajat Patidar was used as an Impact Sub.

But that had not much effect on Pant as he motored on and brought up his first hundred of the season, and second overall in seven years, in 54 balls with a boundary off Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

It was a special way to get to a landmark too, carving an outside off-stump delivery over covers for a four. Pant celebrated in style too — a beaming style followed by an acrobatic somersault.

It was the quintessential Pant shot that carried all his idiosyncrasies in an innings in which he generally stuck to conventional ways of batting, as he later added 49 runs for the third wicket with Nicholas Pooran.

The legion of Pant and LSG fans now would have been hoping to see more of it early in the season, but at least it has filled with some hope for a better season. 

With PTI inputs 

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