Jaiswal becomes the fifth Indian batsman to score 600 runs in a test series

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Ranchi. Prodigious left-handed batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal became the fifth Indian batsman to score 600 or more runs in a Test series when he scored 73 on Saturday on the second day of the fourth Test against England at the JSCA International Cricket Stadium.

Jaiswal crossed the 600-run mark in seven innings of four Test matches. The young sensation has scored 618 runs so far in this series against England at an impressive average of 103 and a tremendous strike rate of 78.32, scoring two centuries and two half-centuries.

Jaiswal joins an illustrious league of Indian greats, including Sunil Gavaskar (1971, 1978), Virat Kohli (2014, 2016, 2017), Dilip Sardesai (1971), and Rahul Dravid (2002), who have previously played in a series Has crossed the 600 run mark. With the exciting prospect of breaking Gavaskar’s legendary record of 774 runs against the West Indies in 1971, in a Test series, Jaiswal stands on the brink of rewriting the history books, and is only one step away from carving his name into cricketing folklore. 156 runs away.

On the second day of the Ranchi Test, Jaiswal showcased his courageous stroke play by breaking Virender Sehwag’s record of most Test sixes by an Indian batsman in a calendar year, hitting an impressive tally of 23 sixes in just five matches in 2024. Just 66 runs away from the milestone of 1000 runs in Test cricket, he has scored 934 runs at an average of 71.84.

Jaiswal now finds himself in the company of iconic cricket legends like Sir Don Bradman, Sir Garfield Sobers, Graeme Smith, George Hadlee and Neil Harvey who have scored more than 600 runs in a Test series before the age of 23.
–IANS

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