Indian batters have come out all guns blazing and have shattered records for the fastest team 50 and 100 in Tests ever in their reply of Bangladesh's first innings in the second session on Day 4 of the second Test at the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur today.
Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal struck a superb 93 from 53 balls to guide India to a 10-wicket win over Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club on Saturday and take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match T20 international series.
India should use Yashasvi Jaiswal as skipper Rohit Sharma's opening partner in the T20 World Cup next month and play Rishabh Pant as the preferred wicketkeeper to ensure left-handed variety in their batting lineup, former all-rounder Yuvraj Singh said.
The duo will be playing their first world cup, beginning next month.
Jaiswal's was the only wicket to fall on ay one for India, with the opener dismissed for a quickfire 57. However, he rewrote the record books during the feisty innings.
Former England captain Joe Root is back in the top three of the ICC Men’s Test Batting Rankings and India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal has advanced towards the top 10 after some fine performances in the fourth match of their ICC World Test Championship series in Ranchi which India won by five wickets to go 3-1 up in the five-match series.
The 22-year-old left-hander joined a select band of seven cricketers to score double centuries in two consecutive Tests including two Indians – Vinod Kambli and Virat Kohli – and has progressed 14 places to 15th position after contributing in India’s 434-run victory that took them 2-1 up in the series.
"Virat Kohli hasn't been with us for three matches. Obviously, when a player of Kohli calibre isn't available, it does make a little difference but, in his place, the way Sarfaraz Khan recently batted, he did very well,” said Gill.
What puts Yashasvi Jaiswal in the same category is less of a cricketing story, and more so a story of human struggle that led to miraculous success.
Indian captain Hardik Pandya called on his batsmen to take more responsibility and support their bowlers in future after openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill showed the way in Saturday's series-levelling Twenty20 win over the West Indies in Florida.
From selling street food in Mumbai to winning the player-of-the-match award in his test debut in Roseau, India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal is international cricket's latest rags-to-riches story.
Pujara, a veteran of over 100 Tests, was dropped following a poor run of form after the 35-year-old scored only 211 runs in his last six matches with one half-century to his name.
Rajasthan Royals' in-form opener Yashasvi Jaiswal is ready to make his international debut for India after a stellar season in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL), batting great Sunil Gavaskar said.
The nail-biting four-wicket win in Dharamsala gave Rajasthan hope of qualifying for the knockout phase of the competition although their fate depends on other matches this weekend
He once lived in tents and sold street food to pursue his cricketing dream. Now, sizzling talent Yashasvi Jaiswal is the toast of the Indian Premier League.
"I used to sleep in a dairy and then stayed at my uncle's place but it wasn't big enough and he asked me to find a different place," Jaiswal told AFP in an interview