# Rishabh Pant becomes India’s top WTC run-scorer, breaks Gill’s record 2026-08-24T10:17:43+00:00 | Sports | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Rishabh Pant has become India’s leading run-scorer in ICC World Test Championship history, surpassing captain Shubman Gill during the first Test against Sri Lanka in Colombo. Pant scored 63 off 89 balls in the first innings on Thursday, hitting six fours and two sixes, taking his WTC tally to 2,948 runs across 42 Tests at an average of 42.11. Gill, who also has 42 Tests, has 2,917 runs. Pant’s innings came despite injury: after being hit on his left hand by a Lahiru Kumara bouncer on Day 1, he retired hurt on three. He returned on Day 2 after Saran Jain fell for six, then added 112 runs for the seventh wicket with Dhruv Jurel. This was only the second century partnership for the seventh wicket or lower by India on Sri Lankan soil, after Cheteshwar Pujara and Amit Mishra’s 104-run stand in 2015. India crossed 400 in their first innings at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground, where the team batting first has won six of the previous 10 such matches and drawn four. Among current active Indian Test cricketers, Yashasvi Jaiswal is sixth on the WTC run-scorers list with 2,588 runs from 30 Tests. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Aaj Tak’s framing leads with Pant’s new WTC record, using classic sports-report language ('made history', 'record shattered') and omitting any discussion of his retirement-hurt incident as a setback. The stance is neutral-report because the article presents the achievement factually with a standard list, without dramatising the injury or speculating about future impact. ## Coverage - aajtak.in Leads with Pantu2019s record as a positive milestone, lists stats neutrally without sensationalising the injury or retirement-hurt This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: India, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill, Sri Lanka, World Test Championship Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/rishabh-pant-becomes-indias-top-wtc-run-scorer-breaks-gills-record/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/rishabh-pant-becomes-indias-top-wtc-run-scorer-breaks-gills-record/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/