Perth, Australia

India batter Yashasvi Jaiswal entered the record books on Saturday (Nov 23) – the second day of the first Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) Test in Perth, Australia. Jaiswal, who was out for a duck in the first inning, scored an unbeaten fifty in India's second innings and hit two sixes in his 193-ball stay. He now has hit the most Test sixes in a calendar year, overtaking former New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum's record of 33 sixes in 2014.

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The left-hand batter has been a breakthrough player for India ever since making his red-ball debut in 2023. He has scored 1209 Test runs in 2024 already with potentially three more Tests available for him to further extend his tally apart from the ongoing innings.

His runs in 2024 are only behind England great Joe Root who has 1,338 runs in 14 Tests he has played in 2024. While Root has scored those runs at an average of a touch above 58, Jaiswal averages 57 and a half. Root, however, has scored five hundreds and four fifties while India batter has managed two hundreds and eight fifties.

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Jaiswal, along with India's other opener KL Rahul, has added an unbeaten 172 runs for the first wicket in India's second innings – the second-highest opening partnership for India in Tests in Australia.

The visitors ended the day with 218 runs ahead in the second innings including the first 46-run first innings lead without losing a single wicket. Jaiswal was not out 90 by the end of the day's play while Rahul was unbeaten on 62.

The pitch, which saw 17 wickets falling on the first day, eased out considerably on Saturday (Nov 23) and only three wickets fell on the day that too in the first session.

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Earlier, Australia resumed their innings from the overnight score of 67/7 and were bowled out for 104 with stand-in skipper Jasprit Bumrah taking 5/30.