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[Saba Sports News] India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal is just seven Test matches old. However, in a brief career, he has already done wonders for India, managing to create a name for himself in the annals of cricketing history.
Adding to his list of accolades, the youngster smashed a double hundred in the second innings of the Rajkot Test versus England. He tore the English bowlers apart, taking them down the cleaners, knitting a never-seen-before onslaught in the Test format.
This is Jaiswal’s second double century in Test cricket so far. In the previous match held in Vizag, he had scored 209 runs in the first innings.
This made him the only Indian batter to record two double tons against England in Tests. He is also became the third Indian after Vinod Kambli and Virat Kohli to hit double hundreds in two consecutive Test matches. Not only this, Jaiswal hammered 12 sixes in his record-breaking knock in Rajkot, the joint-most in an innings.
The Uttar Pradesh-born has already surpassed Sourav Ganguly’s record of most runs scored by an left-hander for India in a Test series. While Ganguly had amassed 534 runs in the 2007 Pakistan series, Jaiswal after the three Tests against England have put 545 runs in his tally.
Jaiswal carried his bat through the innings, going to the dressing room not-out on 214 runs as India declared for 430/4. England need 557 runs to win.