"Overcoming Life's Adversity...": Greats Salute Yashasvi Jaiswal's Terrific Test Ton On Debut

14.07.2023 - 02:49 sports.ndtv.com

The young Yashasvi Jaiswal stood tall among the giants of Indian cricket on Thursday, as he slammed his maiden Test ton in his first Test match.

After 41 long years, since India's 1982 tour of England where Suru Nayak and Sunil Gavaskar opened, there were two Mumbai men opening for the country and put up the best-ever stand of 229 against the West Indies, beating the previous best of 201 set by Sanjay Bangar and Virender Sehwag back in 2001.

Jaiswal became the third Indian opener after Shikhar Dhawan (vs Australia in 2013) and Prithvi Shaw (vs West Indies 2018) to score a hundred on his Test debut.

It was old-fashioned Test match batting where two quality batters literally ground out a tired bowling attack that didn't have much firepower to trouble the duo.

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