Visakhapatnam. The second test match between India and England is going on at the Dr. YS Rajasekhara Reddy Stadium in Visakhapatnam. Playing the first innings for India, Yashasvi Jaiswal scored a double century in 277 balls. He is the youngest player to score a double century in a Test match for India. Yashasvi achieved this feat by performing brilliantly and scored a double century by standing up to the bowlers of the England team.
That Leap. That Celebration. That Special Feeling 👏 👏
Here’s how Yashasvi Jaiswal notched up his Double Hundred 🎥 🔽
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Earlier on Friday, Team India had won the toss and decided to bat first. Captain Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal did the opening. Both had scored 40 runs for the first wicket. Then captain Rohit Sharma returned to the pavilion after becoming England’s victim on a personal score of 14 runs. After this, Yashasvi made a partnership of 49 runs with Shubman Gill for the second wicket, but Shubman returned after scoring 34 runs. Shreyas Iyer could score only 27 runs for India. Yashasvi Jaiswal had made a partnership of 90 runs with Shreyas Iyer. Rajat Patidar, playing for the first time in Test for India, was also out on 32 runs. Yashasvi had scored 70 runs along with Rajat Patidar. After this, Akshar Patel scored 27 runs and Yashasvi made a partnership of 52 runs with him.
In the second test match between India and England, Shrikar Bharat scored only 17 runs. By the end of the first day’s play, India had scored 336 runs after losing 6 wickets. Yashasvi’s inning of 179 runs is also included in this. When the second day’s play started today, Yashasvi started increasing his yesterday’s score continuously and scored his double century. Apart from Yashasvi, Indian batsmen could not score anything special. Let us tell you that India had lost the first test match of this series to England. In such a situation, India has a chance to level the series by defeating England in the second match. After today, there are 3 more days of play in this test match.