IND vs WI: Jaiswal put under pressure; asked to chase 'Sehwag ka 300 wala record'

Yashasvi Jaiswal’s imagination tally successful Test cricket continues. The young opener struck a superb 175 against the West Indies successful the 2nd and last Test astatine the Arun Jaitley Stadium successful Delhi, further establishing himself arsenic India’s adjacent large batting star. Jaiswal’s innings was a premix of patience, control, and elegance — qualities that person already go his hallmark. After putting connected a dependable 58-run opening basal with KL Rahul, helium joined hands with B Sai Sudharsan for a monolithic 193-run partnership. Sudharsan fell for 87, but by then, Jaiswal was good connected his mode to different large hundred. Starting cautiously, helium grew successful confidence, punishing escaped deliveries and rotating the onslaught with ease.

He brought up his 100 with style, past went connected to transverse 150 for the 5th clip successful conscionable 26 Tests. On the greeting of Day 2, his superb innings yet came to an extremity erstwhile helium was tally retired for 175. Former India cricketer Mohammed Kaif was among those near impressed. Taking to societal media, helium wrote: “Yashasvi is simply a batsman with the patience to people large hundreds and acceptable caller marks. In his archetypal 26 matches, his numbers are arsenic bully arsenic Sachin and Virat. His hundreds mostly enactment India connected the way to victory. Sehwag ka 300 wala record, Jaiswal hullo todega.”

This period besides carried peculiar value successful the discourse of cricketing history. It was Jaiswal’s seventh Test 100 earlier turning 24, a feat lone 3 players person bettered — Don Bradman (12), Sachin Tendulkar (11), and Garfield Sobers (9). He present stands alongside legends similar Javed Miandad, Graeme Smith, Alastair Cook, and Kane Williamson, who besides had 7 centuries each astatine that age.

Since Jaiswal’s Test debut, India’s opening section has been heavy shaped by his consistency. In this period, Jaiswal unsocial has scored 7 hundreds, portion each different India openers combined person managed six. Among each teams worldwide, the adjacent astir prolific opener successful the aforesaid clip span is England’s Ben Duckett with 4 centuries. The 23-year-old besides reached different milestone earlier successful the innings, completing 3,000 planetary runs successful conscionable 50 matches, becoming lone the 4th Indian left-handed opener to execute the landmark aft Sourav Ganguly, Gautam Gambhir, and

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