The budding left-handed batter of India Yashasvi Jaiswal is about to break a record set by the great Sachin Tendulkar. This year Jaiswal has been in great form where he has scored 1,280 runs in 12 matches. He has an average score of 58.18 and has hit three centuries and seven half-centuries.
Yashasvi Jaiswal needs 282 more runs to break Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 1,562 runs in a year, set in 2010. Jaiswal has three matches left this year, and with his current form, he has a good chance of breaking the record.
Yashasvi Jaiswal started the five-match Test series against Australia with an amazing 161 runs from 297 balls in the second innings, even though he got out for zero in the first innings. The 22-year-old played differently than usual, being very careful at the start. He avoided risky shots outside the off stump while facing the new ball.
Earlier this year, he became the seventh player in history to score two double centuries in a row in Test cricket. He did this against England, scoring 209 runs in Visakhapatnam and 214 runs in Rajkot.
Jaiswal is only the third Indian to achieve this, after Vinod Kambli in 1993 and Virat Kohli in 2017. The young player will want to keep playing well in the remaining matches and help India win their third series in a row in Australia.
