Yashasvi Jaiswal
India whitewashed Bangladesh 2-0 in the 2-match series by winning by seven wickets on the fifth and final day of the second Test played in Kanpur. In this way, Team India further strengthened its position at the top of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) points table. After Bangladesh was bundled out for 146 runs in the second innings, India was given a target of 95 runs to win, which the host team India achieved by losing 3 wickets thanks to a brilliant half-century by Yashasvi Jaiswal. Yashasvi Jaiswal played an inning of 51 runs in just 45 balls with the help of 8 fours and 1 six. In this way the young Indian opening batsman made a big record in Test cricket.
Actually, Yashasvi Jaiswal had scored an amazing half-century in the first innings also. Jaiswal had played a brilliant inning of 72 runs in 51 balls with the help of 12 fours and 1 six and now created a new history by scoring a quick half-century in the second innings. Jaiswal has become the second Indian cricketer who has achieved the great feat of scoring half-centuries in both the innings of a Test match at a strike rate of more than 100. Earlier in the history of Indian Test cricket, only Virender Sehwag had been able to do this feat.
More than 50 runs in both innings of Test (SR ≥ 100) (India)
- 55(46) & 55(55) – Virender Sehwag vs West Indies, Delhi, 2011
- 72(51) & 51(45) – Yashasvi Jaiswal vs Bangladesh, Kanpur, 2024
Yashasvi Jaiswal now has 929 runs in Test matches in 2024, which is the most runs scored by an Indian batsman in a calendar year before the age of 23. He has broken Sunil Gavaskar’s 53 year old record. 918 runs have been left behind. Gavaskar had scored 918 runs in Test cricket in the year 1971. Let us tell you, Yashasvi Jaiswal made his debut in the year 2023. Since then he has scored 1217 runs in 20 innings of 11 Test matches, which includes three centuries and 7 half-centuries. This year he is also at the third position in terms of scoring the most runs. Joe Root is at first place and Kamendu Mendis is at second place.
