In the fifth Test against England, Yashasvi Jaiswal has a chance to break the record of India’s great batsman Sunil Gavaskar that has been standing for 53 years. Yashasvi Jaiswal has scored 655 runs in this series so far. Yashasvi needs 119 runs to break Sunil Gavaskar’s record.
Yashasvi Jaiswal has been in superb form in the Test series against England. Yashasvi has won everyone’s hearts with his batting in every Test. In this series, Yashasvi has scored two double centuries on his way to creating history by breaking the record for most runs in a bilateral series.
Yashasvi Jaiswal has equalled Virat Kohli’s record of 655 runs in the fourth Test in Ranchi. Virat Kohli did this feat against England at home in 2016. Yashasvi has also surpassed Indian team head coach Rahul Dravid. Rahul Dravid scored 619 runs against Australia. Rahul Dravid also scored 602 runs in the series against England. Virat Kohli has scored 692 runs in the Test series against Australia in 2014-15. Yashasvi Jaiswal needs only 38 runs to break this record. Yashasvi Jaiswal will have to score a big century to break Sunil Gavaskar’s record. Sunil Gavaskar scored 774 runs in his first series against a strong team like West Indies. He then scored 732 runs at home against the West Indies in 1978-79. Yashasvi will have to score 78 runs to break the record of 732 runs.
Virat Kohli has scored more than six hundred runs three times in his career so far. In 2017, Virat scored 610 runs in the home series against Sri Lanka.