After setting the record of the fastest team fifty reach, opener Yashasvi Jaiswal helped India add another record on Day 4 of the second test match against Bangladesh at the Green Park Stadium of Kanpur on Monday.
After making history by scoring the first-ever fifty in the opening three overs of a test inning, the Indian team’s quite first dismissal was its captain Rohit Sharma which occurred very soon.
Rohit struck all 4 boundaries in form of three consecutive sixes and one four in his brief busy innings of 23 runs off 11 balls and got out to Mehidy Hasan Miraz.
Yashasvi Jaiswal, however, wasn’t bothered even an inch with his captain’s dismissal as he burnt the Bangladeshi side even further now alongside Shubman Gill.
Jaiswal reached his half-century in only thirty-one balls and matched Shardul Thakur’s record for the third fastest fifty for India in Tests.
Post attaining this milestone, there was no stopping Jaiswal, who mercilessly carted the Bangladesh bowlers clearing the ropes as India became the first team in test cricket to record nine hundred sixes scored in a calendar year.
With Gill also off to a rampaging start, Jaiswal shot four at Hasan Mahmud on the first ball of the 10th over as India made the shortest hundred in Test cricket history in only 10.1 overs breaking their own record of 12.2 overs set against West Indies at the Port of Spain in 2023.
Jaiswal’s run-a-ball fifty came to an end when he was cleaned up by Hasan Mahmud after scoring 72 runs in 51 balls with 2 sixes and 12 fours in hand.
With two days lost to rain, India now has its sights set on the World Test Championship final and is pressing for every last point. The result would go down really well with them.
