Rohit Sharma Yashasvi Jaiswal: Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal batted brilliantly against the West Indies. Both these players gave a great start to the team. Team India has scored 288 runs at the loss of 4 wickets on the first day. Rohit-Yashaswi has made a big record with his blazing batting and has equaled veteran players like Sunil Gavaskar and Virender Sehwag. Let’s know about it.
Rohit-Yashaswi did wonders
In the second Test match against West Indies, Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal shared a 159-run partnership for the first wicket and put Team India in a strong position. In the first Test against the West Indies, both these players shared a partnership of 229 runs. Rohit-Yashasvi’s name has become one of those Indian pairs, who have made a century partnership while opening twice in a row.
Opening pair with 2 consecutive century partnerships on foreign soil:
1. Sunil Gavaskar-Chetan Chauhan – 2 times (England 1979)
2. Akash Chopra – Virender Sehwag – 2 times (Australia 2003-2004)
3. Wasim Jaffer and Virender Sehwag – 2 times (West Indies 2006)
4. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma – 2 times (West Indies 2003)
Indian opening pairs with most consecutive century partnerships:
Virender Sehwag and Murali Vijay (2008–09) – 3 times
Sunil Gavaskar and Farooq Engineer (1973–74) – 2 times
Sunil Gavaskar and Anshuman Gaekwad (1976) – 2 times
Sunil Gavaskar and Arun Lal (1982) – 2 times
Sadagoppan Ramesh and Devang Gandhi (1999) – 2 times
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma (2023) – 2 times
India strengthened its position
It is because of Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal that Team India is on the driving seat in the Test match. Rohit got out after scoring 80 runs. At the same time, Jaiswal scored 57 runs, but after the dismissal of these two batsmen, Shubman Gill and Ajinkya Rahane could not show anything special. Gill scored 10 runs and Rahane scored 8 runs. Then Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja took over the responsibility of scoring runs. Kohli is present at the crease after scoring 87 runs and Jadeja 36 runs. Team India has scored 288 runs at the loss of 4 wickets. Indian fans will be expecting a century from Kohli on the second day of the match.