If there were any doubts about rising Indian star Rishabh Pant being the ideal replacement for hard-hitting Mahendra Singh Dhoni in near future, the southpaw's downright explosiveness on Thursday night dismissed al those insinuations. His destructive 128 not out off 63 balls was in may sense epic.

As he razed Sunrisers Hyderabad's bowlers to the ground on his way to a humungous century, many records tumbled. Pant 's 128 not out against the Orange Army was the highest-ever individual score in a losing cause in the Indian Premier League (IPL). He overhauled Sanju Samson to become the youngest cricketer to reach 1000-run mark in Indian Premier League. 

The 20-year-old is the second youngest to score an IPL century with Manish Pandey leading the list. And to top it all, His unbeaten knock of 128 runs is the highest score by an Indian in IPL. The record was previously held by Murali Vijay, who had recorded 127 runs for CSK in 2010. 

However, for some inexplicable reason, Indian selectors failed to pick the budding Delhi Daredevils star for India's T20I squad scheduled to tour England and Ireland in August 2018. In response, fans on Twitter castigated BCCI's selection committee for giving Pant's name a glaring miss.