IND vs AUS: The Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia has begun. The battle between the two teams is continuing in the first Test match being played in Perth. Team India’s batsmen failed miserably on the first day of the Perth Test, as a result of which the entire team could not play even 50 overs and collapsed on a score of just 150 runs. The Indian opening pair could add only 5 runs for the first wicket because young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal, playing his first Test match in Australia, could not score a single run and returned to the pavilion on a duck. Jaiswal faced 8 balls but could not open his account. He became the victim of Mitchell Starc in the third over itself.
In response to the score of 150 runs in the Indian innings, the performance of the Australian batsmen was also very poor. Jasprit Bumrah single-handedly destroyed the top order of the Kangaroo team. By the end of the first day’s play, 7 Australian batsmen had returned to the pavilion with a score of 67 runs. After this, on the second day, Australia returned to the pavilion with a score of 104 runs. After this, learning from the failure of the first innings, Yashasvi Jaiswal started the innings of Team India by playing cautiously along with KL Rahul in the second innings and created new history by adding 15 runs to his account.
Big feat of Yashasvi Jaiswal
Yashasvi Jaiswal is in great form this year. He is the highest run-scorer for India in Tests. After young opener Joe Root, he is only the second batsman in the world to score more than 1000 runs this year. As soon as Jaiswal touched the 15-run mark during the second innings of the Perth Test, a new miracle happened in the history of Indian Test cricket. Jaiswal has become the left-handed Indian batsman to score the most runs in a calendar year in Test cricket. He broke a 16-year-old record. Earlier this record was in the name of former Indian cricketer and current head coach of Team India, Gautam Gambhir. Gambhir scored 1134 runs in 16 innings of 8 Test matches in Test cricket in the year 2008. During this, 3 centuries and 6 half-centuries came from his bat.
Indian batsman with the most Test runs in a calendar year (left-handed)
- Yashasvi Jaiswal- 1135 runs (2024)*
- Gautam Gambhir- 1134 runs (2008)