India’s 22-year-old opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal looks to break the records of two Indian cricket legends – Sunil Gavaskar and Virat Kohli when Rohit Sharma’s team hosts England for the 4th Test in Ranchi in 2 days.
Jaiswal will look to break the records for most runs in a single bilateral series as well as the record for most runs against his English counterparts in a red-ball series.
No other batsman than Yashasvi Jaiswal has been in better form as he has already scored two consecutive double centuries in the last two Test matches in Vishakhapatnam and Rajkot.
He is turning out to be the most prolific batsman for both teams, which have some experienced names, mainly in the England field, such as Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes among others.
As for India, the most experienced batsman in the team is of course Rohit Sharma, and behind him on the batting front are Ravindra Jadeja and Shubman Gill.
After Shreyas Iyer’s exclusion from the last 3 Tests and KL Rahul’s absence due to injury in the 3rd, the batting order became a bit more inexperienced but still, the home team has done very well. without them, winning 2-1. lead now.
Jaiswal looks to break Gavaskar’s record of 700+ runs in a single series
Former Indian batting legend and 1983 World Cup winner Sunil Gavaskar, before winning the 1983 Cricket World Cup under the captaincy of Kapil Dev at Lord’s, had become the first Indian batsman to amass more than 700 runs in a single bilateral series against the West Indies twice in 1970/71 and 1978/79 series. No Indian batsman after him, be it Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid among others, has been able to break it till today.
At the moment, given his form and pace, Yashasvi Jaiswal seems to be the one to break through after so many decades. Gavaskar had scored 774 and 732 in 1970/71 and 1978/79 respectively and Jaiswal will need to add another 229 runs to his tally of 545 runs that he scored in the 3 Tests.
The UP-born batsman has scores of 80, 15, 209, 17, 10 and 224 in 6 innings. Whenever Jaiswal has scored more than 100 runs in an innings, the hosts have not lost and the Indian team management will hope that he does something similar in the fourth Test as well.
Yashasvi Jaiswal has already been nothing short of a sensation in his short Test career that began in July 2023 in the West Indies, where he amassed 171 in just his red-ball international debut.
After Gavaskar, Yashasvi Jaiswal looks to chase Virat Kohli’s account in 2016/17
On his way to Sunil Gavaskar’s record, Yashasvi Jaiswal will first have to ensure he surpasses Virat Kohli’s total of 655 runs he scored against England in the 2016/17 Test series, which is also the most by an Indian against them. in red. -series of balls.
That’s not all, Jaiswal will become the highest Indian run-scorer in a Test series of the 21st century, which Kohli also holds with 692 runs.
Lastly, Yashasvi will have a chance to become the fastest Indian batsman to amass 1000 Test runs, currently held by Vinod Kambli who did it in 14 innings. Jaiswal has 861 runs in 13 innings and to surpass Kambli, the left-hand batsman will need to score at least 150. Can he achieve these records in Ranchi? Time will tell.