Yashasvi Jaiswal
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India is firmly in the driver's seat in the first Test match against Bangladesh after giving the latter 515 runs to chase in the second innings.
On Day 2 of the Test, the 22-year-old Yashasvi Jaiswal scripted a unique Test record that no other Indian batter has been able to manage in the 92 years of India playing the longest format of the game.
Jaiswal is the only Indian cricketer who has managed to reach 1000+ runs within his first 10 Test matches. The total runs he has scored so far in Tests is 1094.
The only batter who came close to achieving this feat was the legendary Sunil Gavaskar, who managed 978 runs in his first 10 Test matches.
Jaiswal is now the fourth-highest run getter when it comes to a batter's first 10 Tests. Leading the charts is the uncrowned king of batting, Sir Don Bradman, who managed 1446 runs in his first 10 Tests.
Between Bradman and Jaiswal are Everton Weekes (1125 runs) and George Headley (1102 runs), both from the West Indies.
The match so far...
Rishabh Pant completed an emotional re-initiation into Test cricket while Shubman Gill added another chapter to his growing stature in red-ball format as their centuries laced India’s total domination of Bangladesh on the third day of the first match on Saturday.
At the end of play on Day 3, Bangladesh were 158/4 while chasing an improbable 515 after India, overnight 81 for 3, declared their innings closed at 287 for four, swelling the lead to 514.
Gill (119 not out, 176b, 10x4, 4x6) and Pant (109, 128b, 148m, 13x4, 4x6) led the hosts’ run glut with an alliance of 167 off 217 balls for the fourth wicket.
With PTI inputs