Jaiswal has taken the cricketing world by storm with his heroics in the ongoing Test series against England.
In the first three Tests, the southpaw amassed 545 runs at an average of 109 and a strike rate of 81.10, including two double hundreds and a half-century.
Jaiswal carried his brilliant form to the ongoing fourth Test in Ranchi as well, scoring 73 off 117 balls in India’s first innings.
En route to his half-century in Ranchi, studded with 8 fours and 1 six, Yashasvi Jaiswal also surpassed legendary India opener Virender Sehwag's record for the most Test sixes by an Indian batter in a calendar year.
The 22-year-old achieved this feat with an impressive tally of 23 sixes in just five Test matches in 2024. Moreover, the left-hander is on the verge of reaching the 1000-run milestone in Test cricket, being only 66 runs away.
Currently, Jaiswal has aggregated 934 runs at a remarkable average of 71.84. The 22-year-old also became only the fifth Indian batter to amass 600 or more runs in a Test series, as he slammed another blistering half-century on Saturday (February 24).
With this splendid performance, Jaiswal joined an elite list of Indian legends that includes Sunil Gavaskar (1971, 1978), Virat Kohli (2014, 2016, 2017), Dilip Sardesai (1971), and Rahul Dravid (2002), who have previously breached the 600-run mark in a Test series.
Jaiswal also finds himself in the esteemed company of Sir Don Bradman, Sir Garfield Sobers, Graeme Smith, George Headley and Neil Harvey, who have all amassed over 600 runs in a Test series before turning 23.
Yashasvi Jaiswal also has the chance of surpassing Gavaskar's legendary tally of 774 runs against the West Indies in 1971. He is 156 runs away from rewriting the history books.
(With IANS Inputs)