Yashasvi Jaiswal broke the 45-year-old record.
The second match of the three-match Test series is played between India and New Zealand in Pune, in which on the third day of play, the New Zealand team was restricted to 255 runs in their second innings. Team India has a target of 359 runs in the fourth innings to win this match. Indian team's opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal managed to do a great job with the bat in the third day's game where he set the record of scoring the most runs in a home Test in a year for India in their innings of 77 races. break a 45-year record.
Yashasvi Jaiswal broke Gundappa Vishwanath's record
While the record of scoring the most runs in a year at home for the Indian team in Test cricket is now held by Yashasvi Jaiswal, earlier this record was held by Gundappa Vishwanath, who played in 13 Test matches in home in the year 1979. He had scored a total of 1048 runs with an average of 61.58, while Yashasvi Jaiswal has left him behind and has scored 1056 runs with an excellent average of 66 in the Test Matches played at home in the year 2024, in which He has scored 2 centuries with his bat and 7 half-century innings have also been seen. Now these figures of Jaiswal will surely increase because the Indian team is yet to play one more match of this Test series against New Zealand.
Players who have scored the most home Tests in a year for India
Yashasvi Jaiswal – 1056 runs (year 2024)
Gundappa Vishwanath – 1047 runs (year 1979)
Virat Kohli – 964 runs (2016)
Virat Kohli – 898 runs (2017)
Dilip Vengsarkar – 875 runs (year 1987)
Sunil Gavaskar – 865 runs (year 1979)
read this too
This happened for the first time in the history of the Emerging Asia Cup, when neither of these two teams reached the final.
Mitchell Santner himself was surprised to take Virat Kohli's wicket and said: I thought I would hit this ball for a six.
Latest cricket news
