RR Pant’s 100 not out against South Africa in the just concluded test at Cape Town was in a losing cause to provide the 34^th occasion of a wicket keeper batsman’s century going in vain in the annals of test cricket. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Runs	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	LEG Ames	126	2	Eng	Win	Kingston	14 Mar 1935
2	WW Wade	125	1	SAF	Eng	P Elizabeth	05 Mar 1949
3	Imtiaz Ahmed	122	1	Pak	Win	Kingston	26 Feb 1958
4	APE Knott	106*	4	Eng	Aus	Adelaide	25 Jan 1975
5	APE Knott	116	2	Eng	Win	Leeds	22 Jul 1976
6	WB Phillips	120	1	Aus	Win	Bridgetown	30 Mar 1984
7	RC Russell	128*	3	Eng	Aus	Manchester	27 Jul 1989
8	Kaluwitharana	132*	2	Srl	Aus	Col-SSC	17 Aug 1992
9	A Flower	115	2	Zim	Ind	Delhi	13 Mar 1993
10	Moin Khan	117*	4	Pak	Srl	Sialkot	22 Sep 1995
11	Kaluwitharana	103	3	Srl	NZl	Dunedin	07 Mar 1997
12	A Flower	105*	3	Zim	Srl	Col-SSC	14 Jan 1998
13	A Flower	129	3	Zim	Srl	Harare	26 Nov 1999
14	A Flower	113*	2	Zim	Win	Trinidad	16 Mar 2000
15	A Flower	183*	1	Zim	Ind	Delhi	18 Nov 2000
16	A Flower	142	2	Zim	SAF	Harare	07 Sep 2001
17	A Flower	199*	3	Zim	SAF	Harare	07 Sep 2001
18	AC Gilchrist	133	2	Aus	Eng	Sydney	02 Jan 2003
19	Sangakkara	138	3	Srl	Pak	Karachi	28 Oct 2004
20	M Rahim	101	4	Ban	Ind	Chattogram	17 Jan 2010
21	McCullum	104	3	NZl	Aus	Wellington	19 Mar 2010
22	H Jayawardene	112	1	Srl	Eng	Cardiff	26 May 2011
23	D Ramdin	107	1	Win	NZl	Hamilton	19 Dec 2013
24	S Ahmed	103	2	Pak	Srl	Col-SSC	14 Aug 2014
25	M Rahim	116	3	Ban	Win	Kingstown	05 Sep 2014
26	RW Chakabva	101	2	Zim	Ban	Khulna	03 Nov 2014
27	LD Chandimal	126	3	Srl	Eng	Ch-le-St	27 May 2016
28	M Rahim	159	1	Ban	NZl	Wellington	12 Jan 2017
29	M Rahim	127	2	Ban	Ind	Hyd-RGS	09 Feb 2017
30	JM Bairstow	119	1	Eng	Aus	Perth	14 Dec 2017
31	RR Pant	114	4	Ind	Eng	The Oval	07 Sep 2018
32	Q de Kock	111	2	SAF	Ind	Vizag	02 Oct 2019
33	Liton Das	114	1	Ban	Pak	Chattogram	26 Nov 2021
34	RR Pant	100*	3	Ind	SAF	Cape Town	11 Jan 2022

It also provides the second occasion of an Indian wicket keeper batsman’s century going in vain. Both such occasions are tabulated below. Interestingly enough, on both occasions, it was RR Pant who had scored the century.

No	Player	Runs	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	RR Pant	114	4	Ind	Eng	The Oval	07 Sep 2018
2	RR Pant	100*	3	Ind	SAF	Cape Town	11 Jan 2022

It also provides the third occasion of a wicket keeper batsman’s century going in vain against South Africa. All such occasions are tabulated below.

No	Player	Runs	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	A Flower	142	2	Zim	SAF	Harare	07 Sep 2001
2	A Flower	199*	3	Zim	SAF	Harare	07 Sep 2001
3	RR Pant	100*	3	Ind	SAF	Cape Town	11 Jan 2022

It also provides the second occasion of a wicket keeper batsman’s century going in vain on South African soil. Both such occasions are tabulated below. RR Pant became the first visiting wicket keeper batsman to witness his century going in vain.

No	Player	Runs	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	WW Wade	125	1	SAF	Eng	P Elizabeth	05 Mar 1949
2	RR Pant	100*	3	Ind	SAF	Cape Town	11 Jan 2022