2024-02-21 17:10:23
Ranchi: Indian cricket’s rising star Yashasvi Jaiswal continues to impress with his stellar performances against England. After scoring two consecutive double centuries in Visakhapatnam and Rajkot, Yashasvi Jaiswal has become the leading run-getter of the series by scoring 545 runs at an average of 109 in just six Test innings. In his short career, Yashasvi has scored 861 runs in 13 innings of 7 matches. Despite suffering from back spasms during the third Test, the left-handed Jaiswal played brilliantly and scored an unbeaten 214 runs. During this marathon innings, he also equaled the record of the great Wasim Akram for most sixes (12) in an innings. Now the third match of the five-match series is going to start from February 23 in Ranchi. Yashasvi Jaiswal can break some big records in this match.
Gavaskar’s record in danger
In the eyes of Yashasvi Jaiswal, the first record will be of great batsman and former captain Sunil Gavaskar. Sunil Gavaskar, known as the Little Master, is the only Indian batsman to score 700 or more runs in a bilateral Test series. Gavaskar achieved this feat twice, in the 1970/71 series against West Indies, he scored 774 runs and in the 1978/79 series, he scored 732 runs. Jaiswal needs 229 more runs to cross this all-time record.
Virat’s record will also be broken!
Yashasvi Jaiswal will aim to surpass Virat Kohli’s record of 692 runs, which is the highest score by an Indian batsman in a bilateral Test series in the 21st century. Kohli also holds the record for the most runs by an Indian batsman against England during the 2016/17 home series, in which he scored 655 runs. Yashasvi will break this record as soon as he scores 110 runs in the next two innings, otherwise he will still have one option left in the last Test to be held in Dharamshala.
Equaling Vinod Kambli’s record
Additionally, Yashasvi Jaiswal will also have a chance to become the joint fastest Indian player along with Vinod Kambli to reach 1000 Test runs. Kambli had achieved this feat in just 14 innings. Jaiswal needs 139 runs in his next innings to equal Kambli’s record. At the same time, the one who scores thousand runs in matches will also become the fastest player of India and the second fastest player of the world. In India, this record is in the name of Cheteshwar Pujara and in the world, this record is in the name of Don Bradman. Australia’s Bradman had achieved the feat of completing 1000 runs in 7 matches.