Yashasvi Jaiswal continued his purple patch in Test cricket with a sublime century against England at ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam. Jaiswal brought his maiden Test century in India with a six off Tom Hartley’s delivery.
The southpaw missed out on a well-deserved ton in the first innings of the Hyderabad Test but he showed great discipline in Vizag to register a triple-digit score.
Jaiswal held his ground strong in the first session and showed respect to the good deliveries but completed his half-century at the brink of lunch break.
He shared a 40-run stand with skipper Rohit Sharma who once again failed to put up a big score and was dismissed on 14.
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Meanwhile, Jaiswal didn’t take any risks in the first session. He lost another batting partner before the Lunch break as Shubman Gill’s rough patch in red-ball cricket continued.
Jaiswal joined fellow Mumbaikar Shreyas Iyer and stitched a 90-run stand for the third wicket to rebuild the Indian innings.
The southpaw played with an aggressive approach after crossing the 80-run mark and starting dealing in boundaries as he smashed his century with a magnificent six over long-on.
He scored 11 fours and three sixes en route to his second Test hundred.
The 22-year-old also registered his name in an elusive list comprised of legends like Sachin Tendulkar and Ravi Shastri
Indian players scoring Test 100s both home & away before turning 23
Ravi Shastri
Sachin Tendulkar
Vinod Kambli
Yashasvi Jaiswal
India expectedly decided to bat first on a flat surface and made three changes to their playing eleven, bringing in debutant Rajat Patidar, Kuldeep Yadav and Mukesh Kumar for K L Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammed Siraj respectively.
England opened the bowling with lone pacer in the playing eleven, Anderson, and off-spinner Joe Root. Anderson was accurate and frugal in his opening spell, giving away only six runs in five overs.
The surface had minimal help for him but the 41-year-old still made life tough for Rohit by targeting his stumps. It was very unlike Rohit to not to go for his shots and his innings ended without a boundary. However, Jaiswal showed discipline and waited for loose deliveries to hit boundaries.
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