Wicket-keeper Mohammad Rizwan scored a brilliant century and continued hisfine form with the bat in the second innings of the second Test matchbetween Pakistan and South Africa. This was Rizwan’s first century in Testcricket, having scored six half-centuries in 12 matches prior to this.——————————
Rizwan is currently one of the finest wicket-keepers in world cricket andhas the best batting average amongst the wicket-keepers since 2018. Rizwanmade his Test debut in 2016 but did not establish himself as the regularwicket-keeper of the side until 2019. Since then, Rizwan has made theposition his own and has put in substantial contributions for the team.
Rizwan averages 46.31 since 2018 and has scored 741 runs in 18 innings. Noother wicket-keeper averages more with the bat than Rizwan during this timeperiod. Rizwan’s career average is healthy as well, he averages 44.35 in 20innings.
India’s Rishabh Pant is second on the list and closely follows Rizwan withan average of 45.34 since 2018. Kiwi BJ Watling, England’s Jos Buttler,West Indies’ Shane Dowrich, and South Africa’s Quinton De Kock make up thetop six in the list.——————————
——————————Player Innings Runs Average 100sMohammad Rizwan 18 741 46.31 1Rishabh Pant 28 1,179 45.34 2BJ Watling 30 1,071 38.25 2Jos Buttler 24 825 37.50 1Shane Dowrich 29 846 35.25 2Quinton De Kock 42 1,421 33.83 2
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**Since 2018 and minimum 500 runs*
Rizwan’s brilliant innings in the second Test match helped Pakistan insetting a daunting target of 370 for South Africa, the match is set up tobe a cracker heading into the final days’ play. South Africa will be hopingto chase down the target and level the series 1-1.
