IND vs AUS, 1st Test: Yashasvi Jaiswal creates a world record! Achieves this MASSIVE feat against Australia
New Delhi: The Indian team is currently on a tour of Australia. Where a five-match Test series is being played between the two teams. In the first match of this series, Team India’s star young batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal was seen in amazing form. Although he was out without opening the account in the first innings of the match, he made a brilliant comeback in the second innings and scored a half-century. He has troubled the Kangaroo bowlers a lot with his brilliant batting. Meanwhile, as soon as he hit two sixes in this match, he made a world record in his name. He has become the batsman who has hit the most sixes in a calendar year of Test cricket. Earlier this record was in the name of New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum.
Yashasvi Jaiswal has so many sixes to his name:
Before this match, Yashasvi Jaiswal had a total of 32 sixes to his name in Test cricket this year. As soon as he hit two sixes in the second innings of the match against Australia, his number of sixes became 34 and he became number 1 in the list of batsmen who hit the most sixes in a calendar year of Test cricket. Earlier in the year 2014, McCullum had hit 33 sixes. So let’s take a look at the list of such top 5 batsmen.
Top 5 batters to hit the most sixes in Tests in a calendar year:
- 34 – Yashasvi Jaiswal (2024)*
- 33 – Brendon McCullum (2014)
- 26 – Ben Stokes (2022)
- 22 – Adam Gilchrist (2005)
A great partnership with KL Rahul:
The Indian team is looking in a very good position in the first Test match against Australia. After being all out for just 150 runs in the first innings of this match, everyone felt that this match was out of Team India’s hands, but after this, the Indian bowlers all out Australia for just 104 runs and the opening batsmen of Team India have given a great start in the second innings. Yashasvi Jaiswal has made a partnership of 150+ runs with KL Rahul.