Yashasvi Jaiswal Stands Behind Only Don Bradman: 22-year-old Yashasvi Jaiswal is having a dream start to his Test career and has batted sublimely in the ongoing Test series against England.
The young left-hander has amassed 655 runs in four Tests. The fact that no other batsman has even 350 runs makes Jaiswal’s feat even more remarkable. He is averaging a whopping 93 in the series so far; and while he hasn’t won a Player of the Match award in any of the four Tests, he is the frontrunner to grab the Player of the Series award.
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Yashasvi Jaiswal Stands Behind Only Don Bradman
Such astonishing has been the start of Yashasvi Jaiswal’s Test career that he now stands behind only Don Bradman in the list of most runs after 8 Test matches. Jaiswal has scored 971 runs in 8 Tests at an average of 69, notching up three centuries, two of which are double hundreds, and three half-centuries.
His 655 runs are now the joint-most runs by an Indian batsman in a Test series against England. He equaled Virat Kohli’s tally of 655 runs from the 2016–17 home series. Jaiswal broke Rahul Dravid’s run mark of 602 runs from the 2002 Test series between these two sides. Only two batters, both English, have scored more runs in an India vs England Test series: Graham Gooch (752 runs in 1990) and Joe Root (737 runs in 2021/22).
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Yashasvi Jaiswal Could Target Sunil Gavaskar’s Record Of Most Runs By An Indian In A Test Series
In sight of Jaiswal now is Sunil Gavaskar’s record of 774 runs from the 1970/71 series against the West Indies, which is the most number of runs scored by an Indian batsman in a Test series. Gavaskar also scored 732 runs against the same opposition in 1978/79. Virat Kohli is behind Gavaskar with 692 runs against Australia in 2014/15.
Meanwhile, India won the Ranchi Test by 5 wickets and took an unassailable lead of 3-1 in the series with one more Test to go. Dhruv Jurel, playing only in his second Test match, was named Player of the Match for his scores of 90 and 39*. The fifth and final Test will be played in Dharamsala.
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