Sydney: Team India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal completed a brilliant fourth Test hundred and his maiden ton on Australian soil in his first Test Down Under to take India to a dominant position at lunch on Day 3 of the 1st India vs Australia 2024 at Perth on Sunday.
Jaiswal completed his ton with an incredible ramp shot for six off Josh Hazlewood as he went into lunch at 141 off 264 balls with 3 sixes and 12 fours as India were 275 for one wicket, leading by 321 runs.
On course of his hundred, Jaiswal broke Sachin Tendulkar’s incredible record of most Test tons in a calendar year before the age of 23, equalling fellow Indian batter Vinod Kambli in the process. The players above Jaiswal in this list are Sunil Gavaskar in 1971 (4), Vinod Kambli in 1993 (4), Ravi Shastri in 1984 (3), and Sachin Tendulkar in 1992 (3). The last Indian opener to score a Test hundred in Australia was KL Rahul (110) at Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) in 2014-15.
The Rajasthan Royals batter also registered his name in the record books as he became the third batter from India to score a ton on his maiden tour to Australia. The other two batters to achieve this landmark are ML Jaisimha who did it in the 1967-68 tour and the other player is legendary Sunil Gavaskar, who did it in the 1977-78 tour.
Jaiswal has also scored the most Test hundreds (4) before turning 23 for India after Sachin Tendulkar (8), Ravi Shastri (5), Sunil Gavaskar (4) and Vinod Kambli (4).
Earlier on Saturday, Jaiswal set another new record by slamming the most sixes in Test cricket in a calendar year by eclipsing former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum’s 10-year-old record. On Day 2 of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) series opener against Australia, Jaiswal smoked the ball into the stands towards the end of the second day’s play.
He danced around the crease and found the ideal connection to launch the ball over the boundary rope off Nathan Lyon. This was Jaiswal’s 34th Test maximum in 2024, surpassing McCullum’s tally of 33, which he amassed in 2014.
England Test captain Ben Stokes slipped to the third spot with 26 sixes that he tonked in 2022. Australia’s destructive Adam Gilchrist and India’s legendary opener Virender Sehwag struck 22 sixes each in 2005 and 2008, respectively.
