India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal has continued his superb run in the ongoing five-match Test series against England after smashing another fifty on Saturday (Feb 24).
Jaiswal, the leading run scorer in the series in his impressive innings of 73 runs shattered Virender Sehwag’s record for sixes by an Indian in a calendar year. The Indian batter has been in the form of his life so far and now has more than five hundred in the series, being a prime candidate to be the Player of the Series.
Playing in just his fourth Test match of 2024, the 22-year-old now has 23 sixes in the calendar year, surpassing Sehwag’s previous record of 22. This means, in just 55 days of the calendar year, Jaiswal has broken Sehwag’s record which was registered in 365 days. The southpaw has already scored two double-hundreds in the series including an unbeaten knock of 214 in Rajkot. He was on the verge of his third Test hundred before being scalped by Shoaib Bashir.
Most Sixes for India in a calendar year
Yashasvi Jaiswal: 23* sixes in 2024
Virender Sehwag: 22 sixes in 2008
Rishabh Pant: 21 sixes in 2022
Rohit Sharma: 20 sixes in 2019
Mayank Agarwal: 18 sixes in 2019
India struggle with bat
Jaiswal’s 73-run knock however was the only positive for Team India at the time of writing as the hosts struggled at 204/7. Shubman Gill scored 38 while Rohit Sharma was scalped for 2 in the third over of the match. While Rajit Patidar (17), Ravindra Jadeja (12) and Sarfaraz Khan (14) got into double figures, they could not score big.
Bashir was the most impressive bowler for England and had figures of 78/4 at the time of writing with Tom Hartley bagging two.
Earlier, England were bowled out for 353 with Joe Root unbeaten on 122, silencing his critics with the bat. He was given a helping hand by Ollie Robinson who scored 58 with the bat to help England reach the big total.
For India, Ravindra Jadeja ended with figures of 6/4 while debutant Akash Deep Singh pocketed three wickets. Mohammed Siraj and Ravichandran Ashwin bagged the remaining three wickets for the hosts.