New Delhi: India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal could break Sachin Tendulkar’s scoring record in their ongoing five-match Test series for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Jaiswal has been in superb form in the calendar year 2024, scoring 1280 runs in 23 innings of 12 Test matches at an average of 58.18 with three centuries and seven half centuries.
The left hander is only 282 runs behind Tendulkar, who had scored 1562 runs in 2010, the most runs scored by an Indian batter in a calendar year. With India set to play three more Tests of the BGT in December, Jaiswal would potentially get six innings to overtake Tendulkar.
Hot form
The 22-year-old began the BGT series in rousing fashion with a 161-run knock off 297 deliveries in the second innings of the opening Test at Perth, having fallen for a duck in the first innings.
His ton helped India to a 295-run win, the highest by margin of runs in Australia. Jaiswal struck 15 boundaries and three sixes, adding 201 runs for the opening wicket with KL Rahul.
Since his debut in July 2023, Jaiswal has hit 1568 runs in 28 innings of 15 matches at an average of 58.07 with four centuries and eight fifties.
He became only the seventh batter to score double centuries in successive Test matches earlier in the year, hitting 2019 in Visakhapatnam and 214 in Rajkot against England.
He was the third Indian after Vinod Kambli (1993) and Virat Kohli (2017) to achieve that feat. In the England series, Jaiswal became only the second Indian batter after Sunil Gavaskar to score over 700 runs in a Test series.
His performance drew praise from former England skipper Alastair Cook.
“I think he scored the most runs as any Indian player up to after 15 Test matches at the top of the order, which I’ll keep saying it, no one else believes me, it’s the hardest place to bat. What a classy player he is,” he told TNT Sports.
Jaiswal has been in superb form in the calendar year 2024, scoring 1280 runs in 23 innings of 12 Test matches at an average of 58.18 with three centuries and seven half centuries. Cricket Sports News: Latest Cricket News, Cricket Live Score, Sports Breaking News from Sports Today
