'Best innings of IPL 2018', 'SRH left PANT-ing': Twitter awestruck after Rishabh Pant smashes thrilling ton

Rishabh Pant played one of the finest, most marauding knocks in Indian Premier League (IPL) history on Thursday. The Delhi Daredevils (DD) keeper-batsman made 128 off 63 against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) to take his team to 187 for 5 at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi.

The unbeaten innings, played against the IPL 2018 table-toppers who have arguably the best bowling attack in the tournament, will be remembered for a long long time. Pant destroyed the likes of Rashid Khan and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, smashing the latter for 26 runs in the last over.

Twitter was in disbelief after watching Pant's performance, hailimg the left-hander as India's future.

Here are some tweets

More and more I am convinced there is something special about Rishabh Pant.

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) May 10, 2018

Looking into the Cricket dictionary for the name of that shot of Rishabh Pant over short third man! Just WOW! 26 runs off the last over of Bhuvi! #DDvSRH #WhistlePodu pic.twitter.com/aibjnUuvTq

— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL) May 10, 2018

Innings of this year's #IPL. #RishabhPant. #Special.

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) May 10, 2018

Rishabh Pant's 100 is the 50th individual century in #IPL cricket!
1st: Brendon McCullum for KKR on 18 April 2008
25th: Shane Watson for RR on 22 April 2013
50th: Rishabh Pant for DD on 10 May #IPL2018#DDvSRH

— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) May 10, 2018

Rishabh Pant has got to be one of the most fearless and powerful young batsmen I have ever come across. First T20 . Congratulations.

— ian bishop (@irbishi) May 10, 2018

Rishabh Pant is the most fearless Indian batsman since Virender Sehwag. #DDvSRH

— SAGAR (@sagarcasm) May 10, 2018

What an amazing innings from Rishabh Pant. Incredible talent and skill!

— Aaron Finch (@AaronFinch5) May 10, 2018

Rishabh Pant becomes second youngest to score an IPL century and first Indian to score century in this season..

— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) May 10, 2018

30 runs off 26 balls. Scored 38 in the next 18 balls. Rishabh Pant has showed that patience has a place in T20 too. Just like Mutual Funds...have patience. @MFSahiHai #FundaSahiHai #DDvSRH #IPL

— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) May 10, 2018

The best bowling attack PANT-Ing for breath. This is a bloody special knock from Rishabh Pant. Been the season of young Indians and this effort is right up there! #VIVOIPL #DDvSRH

— Jatin Sapru (@jatinsapru) May 10, 2018

Enough juice left to hit one hand 6 after hitting 20 boundaries. Rishabh Pant has potential to define Indian Circket's future. #IPL

— cricBC (@cricBC) May 10, 2018

Rishabh Pant has become the 31st batsman (13th Indian) in #IPL history to make a hundred!
Indians:
M Pandey
Y Pathan
M Vijay
P Valthaty
S Tendulkar
V Sehwag
A Rahane
R Sharma
S Raina
W Saha
V Kohli
S Samson
RISHABH PANT#DDvSRH#IPL2018

— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) May 10, 2018

SRH is the best bowling side of this IPL

Rishabh Pant: pic.twitter.com/iMiomJDebv

— InGenious (@Bees_Kut) May 10, 2018

Rishabh Pant's 128* is now the highest score by an Indian batsman in #IPL, beating Murali Vijay's 127 for CSK vs RR (Chennai, 2010).#DDvSRH #SRHvDD #IPL2018

— Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket) May 10, 2018

Can't believe what I just saw! Still remember the 97 he scored against GL last year. Unbelievable hitting from @RishabPant777. Great going my boy. Keep it up. #DDvSRH #IPL2018 pic.twitter.com/AK3mpC29Bx

— Suresh Raina (@ImRaina) May 10, 2018

Saw McCullum in 2008..rishab pant innings right up there .. what a knock @bcci.@DelhiDaredevils @ParthJindal11

— Sourav Ganguly (@SGanguly99) May 10, 2018

Not since Ashoka in 261 B.C has anyone plunder Bhubaneswar as Pant did tonight.#DDvSRH

— Nikhil Naz (@NikhilNaz) May 10, 2018

Playing XIs

Delhi Daredevils: Prithvi Shaw, Jason Roy, Shreyas Iyer (c), Rishabh Pant (wk), Glenn Maxwell, Vijay Shankar, Liam Plunkett, Harshal Patel, Amit Mishra, Shahbaz Nadeem, Trent Boult.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Alex Hales, Shikhar Dhawan, Kane Williamson (c), Manish Pandey, Shakib Al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, Shreevats Goswami (wk), Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Siddarth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma.