The Indian team will start its Australia tour from November 22 in which it will have to play the first match of the 5-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy against the host team at the Optus Stadium in Perth. This Test series is very important for Team India because they had to face a one-sided defeat in the three-match Test series against New Zealand at home, due to which the path to make it to the final of the World Test Championship 2023-25 ​​may now be very difficult. Has been. Team India will have to show a much better game in this series, in which the role of opening batsmen becomes very important.
Team India has seen a very good performance from left-handed young opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal in the Tests in the year 2024, in which he is expected to perform similarly with the bat in this series against Australia, although on the pitches there. It is not going to be an easy task at all for Jaiswal to face the Australian pet attack.
Jaiswal can create history in Perth Test
For Yashasvi Jaiswal, the three-match Test series against New Zealand was not very good with the bat in which he was not able to score even a single century. So far in his Test career, Jaiswal has scored 1407 runs in 14 matches at an excellent average of 56, in which three century innings have also been seen. The year 2024 has also been very good for Yashasvi, in which he has impressed everyone with his aggressive batting in Tests. Yashasvi’s bat has seen 32 sixes in Test cricket so far in the year 2024, in which if he succeeds in hitting 2 more sixes in the Perth Test, he will break the record of former New Zealand team captain and veteran wicketkeeper batsman Brendon McCullum. Will make a world record. Currently, the record of hitting most sixes in a year in Test is in the name of McCullum who had hit a total of 33 sixes in the year 2014, hence Jaiswal has to hit only 2 more sixes to break this record.
Players who have hit most sixes in a year in Test cricket
Brendon McCullum – 33 sixes (2014)
Yashasvi Jaiswal – 32 sixes (year 2024)
Ben Stokes – 26 sixes (year 2022)
Adam Gilchrist – 22 sixes (2005)
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