Yashasvi Jaiswal cracked a second century for the Rest of India (RoI) group on his Irani Cup debut in opposition to Madhya Pradesh in Gwalior on Saturday.
The Mumbai batter adopted his double century (213 off 259 balls) with a quickfire hundred off simply 104 balls whereas ROI misplaced a heap of wickets round him. Walking in at quantity three late on Day 3 after the dismissal of Mayank Agarwal for a duck, Jaiswal motored his approach 58 off 53 balls earlier than stumps.
While Madhya Pradesh pacers picked up 4 wickets inside 5 overs within the morning session on Day 4, Jaiswal continued his measured knock to develop into the primary batter to report a double hundred and hundred in a single Irani Cup match.
Jaiswal can be solely the second batter after Shikhar Dhawan to amass over 300 runs in an Irani Cup match.
Overall, Jaiswal is the eleventh Indian to report a First-Class double century and century in the identical match. KS Duleepsinhji was the primary Indian to attain the feat in 1929 whereas enjoying for Sussex within the County Championship in England. Sunil Gavaskar is the one Indian to report the achievement in worldwide cricket.
During the primary innings, Jaiswal had develop into simply the tenth batter to report a double hundred within the Irani Cup.
Jaiswal and Abhimanyu Easwaran had put up a 371-run stand with Easwaran – the best ever within the event – handy ROI a 190-run first-innings lead.
Jaiswal has been in scorching type in red-ball cricket for the reason that begin of the 2022-23 season, the place he struck a double hundred (227) on his Duleep Trophy debut in Chennai for West Zone in opposition to the North East Zone. The left-handed batter had later slammed a century (146) on his India A debut in opposition to Bangladesh at Cox’s Bazaar in November 2022.
Jaiswal has amassed over 1000 runs in simply 17 FC innings this season. During the Duleep Trophy closing, Jaiswal grew to become the joint-fastest Indian to achieve 1000 runs in First-Class cricket whereas scoring a match-winning 265. He equalled Rusi Modi and Amol Muzumdar for the report, reaching the landmark in simply 13 innings.
Indians to hit 200 and 100 in a First-Class match
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KS Duleepsinhji – 115, 246 – Sussex v Kent 1929 - ⦿
Hanumant Singh – 109. 213* – Rajasthan v Bombay 1966-67 - ⦿
Sunil Gavaskar – 124, 220 – India v West Indies, 1970-71 - ⦿
WV Raman – 226, 120 – TN v Haryana – 1991-92 - ⦿
Ajay Jadeja – 136, 202* – Haryana v Saurashtra – 1998-99 - ⦿
Ambati Rayudu – 210, 159* – Hyderabad v Andhra – 2002-03 - ⦿
Hrishikesh Kanitkar – 112, 207* – Maharashtra v Services – 2003-04 - ⦿
Yusuf Pathan – 108, 210* – West Zone v South Zone – 2009-10 - ⦿
Naman Ojha – 219*, 101* – India A v Australia A – 2014 - ⦿
Rahul Dalal – 178, 205* – Arunachal Pradesh v Mizoram – 2019-20 - ⦿
Dhruv Shorey – 252*, 150* – Delhi v Assam – 2022-23 - ⦿Yashasvi Jaiswal – 213, 121* (batting) – Rest of India v Madhya Pradesh – 2022-23
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com