Yashasvi Jaiswal Created History: Indian opener Yashasvi Jaiswal has once again scored a double century for England. Earlier, Yashasvi had scored a double century in the second test. This is the second double century (214*) in the young career of Jaiswal, who is playing only his 7th Test. Thanks to this double century of Jaiswal, India declared its second innings on the score of 430/4 and gave England a big target of 557 runs to win. Jaiswal has made many big records in his name with this double century.
Jaiswal broke this record of Sachin
Yashasvi Jaiswal has become the youngest batsman to score more than one score of more than 150 runs in a bilateral Test series. He has played innings of 150+ runs thrice so far. He has broken the record of Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin had accomplished this feat at the age of 24 years and 336 days whereas Yashasvi’s age is currently 22 years and 52 days.
3 centuries in lowest test innings
With this century, Yashasvi became jointly the 7th Indian batsman to score 3 centuries in the shortest Test innings. He has scored 3 centuries in 13 innings. Jaiswal has equaled Virender Sehwag and Sanjay Manjrekar. Both of them had also completed 3 centuries in 13-13 innings. Former Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin is on top in this matter. He scored 3 centuries in the first 4 innings only.
Became the batsman who hit most sixes in an innings
Jaiswal hit 12 sixes in this innings. He has become the batsman who has hit joint maximum number of sixes in an innings. He has equaled the record of Pakistan’s Wasim Akram, who had hit 12 sixes against Zimbabwe in 1996.
Jaiswal broke Rohit’s record
By hitting 12 sixes in this innings, Jaiswal has also become the batsman who has hit the most sixes in a Test series. Till now Jaiswal has played only three test matches and has succeeded in hitting 22 sixes. There are still two more test matches to be played in the series. He has also broken the previous record of captain Rohit Sharma. Rohit had hit 19 sixes against South Africa in the year 2019.
Left handed batsman who scored most runs in a test series
Jaiswal has scored 545 runs so far in this series. He has become the left-handed Indian batsman who has scored the most runs in a Test series. He has broken the record of Sourav Ganguly (534 runs vs Pakistan, 2007).
2 consecutive double centuries in a test series
Jaiswal has now become the third Indian batsman to score two consecutive double centuries in a Test series. Before him, Vinod Kambli (224 vs England and 227 vs Zimbabwe 1992/93) and Kohli (213 vs Sri Lanka and 243 vs Sri Lanka, 2017) had done this.
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