yashasvi jaiswal has scored a century in the first innings of the first Test against England. He has completed the fifth century of his Test career in 144 balls. On the basis of this century, he has become only the fifth indian batsman to score a century in his first innings on england soil. Before him, 5 indian batsmen including sourav ganguly have done this.
The first indian to score a century in his first innings while playing in england was Vijay Manjrekar, who played an innings of 133 runs in 1952. After him, sandeep Patil, sourav ganguly and murali vijay have done so. Let us remind you that jaiswal had earlier also become the player to score a century in his debut Test. He played a brilliant innings of 171 runs against west indies in the first innings of his Test career.
Talking about the first Test match between india and england, yashasvi jaiswal shared an opening partnership of 91 runs with KL Rahul. rahul was dismissed after scoring 42 runs. Apart from this, jaiswal shared a partnership of 129 runs with Shubman Gill. He scored 101 runs in his first innings played in england, during which 16 fours and 1 six came off his bat.
jaiswal close to a big record
yashasvi jaiswal is just 101 runs away from becoming the batsman to complete 2,000 runs in Test cricket. Now in Test matches, he has scored 1899 runs in 37 Test innings and he can complete two thousand runs by scoring a century in the second innings of the match being played against england in Leeds. Currently, the record for completing the fastest 2,000 Test runs is held by rahul Dravid, who completed two thousand runs in 40 innings..jpg)
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