Stats – Jaiswal and Lara in a club of their own
All the stats highlights from India’s first innings in Visakhapatnam that featured a dazzling double century from a young India opener
Sampath Bandarupalli
03-Feb-2024 • 23 hrs ago
Zoomed In: What makes Yashasvi Jaiswal a special batter?
Yashasvi Jaiswal, who got to his second Test century on the first day of the Visakhapatnam Test against England, made it a double-century on the second morning before falling for 209. Here’s a look at all the numbers around that innings.
22y, 36d – Jaiswal’s age at the start of the second Test match. He is now the third-youngest player to score a double-century for India in men’s Tests. Vinod Kambli had two doubles before turning 22 – the first came against England when he was 21 years and 32 days old, at the start of the Wankhede Test in 1993. Sunil Gavaskar’s maiden double came in the 1971 Port of Spain Test, which he began aged 21 years and 277 days.
1 – Players younger than Jaiswal to score a double-century in the last 20 years in Test cricket. Kraigg Brathwaite was 21 years and 278 days at the start of the 2014 Kingston Test against Bangladesh, where he scored 212 in the first innings.
396 – India’s first-innings total against England is their fourth lowest in Test cricket in which there was a double-century. Virender Sehwag scored 201 during the 329 all out against Sri Lanka in Galle in 2008, the lowest Test total for any team with a double-century.
192 - Runs scored by Jaiswal against England's spinners. These are the joint-highest by any Indian batter in a Test innings against spin since 2002, level with Karun Nair, who also scored 192 runs against spin during his unbeaten 303 against England in 2016.
Jaiswal's strike rate against spinners in Visakhapatnam was 86.09, and he had a control percentage of 91.03 against them. Against James Anderson, the lone quick bowler in England's attack, Jaiswal scored only 17 runs at a strike rate of 25.37 and was in control of 80.6% of the 67 balls he faced.
6 - Players before Jaiswal to score double-centuries in men's Tests despite none of their team-mates reaching 50. Jaiswal is the only one from India in the seven, with Sehwag's 195 against Australia in the 2003 Melbourne Test being the previous highest where no team-mate got t0 50.
34 - Shubman Gill's score was the second-highest in India's 396 all out. Only one batter before Jaiswal has scored a double-century in a Test innings where none of his team-mates scored more than 34. Brian Lara made 226 against Australia in the 2005 Adelaide Test, where the second-best score was 34 by Dwayne Bravo.
2 - Indians before Jaiswal with multiple 150-plus scores in Tests before turning 23: Kambli and Sachin Tendulkar had two 150-plus scores by that stage.
Jaiswal is also the third-youngest batter with hundreds at home and away from home in Tests for India. Tendulkar completed the set as a teenager, while Kambli had home and away Test hundreds before he turned 22.
7 - Sixes by Jaiswal during his 209-run knock are the most in an innings in India vs England Tests. No other batter hit more than five sixes.
Jaiswal's seven sixes are bettered by only two Indians - Navjot Singh Sidhu against Sri Lanka in 1994 and Mayank Agarwal against Bangladesh in 2019 - who hit eight sixes each in their innings.
179* - Jaiswal's score at stumps on Friday was the second-highest for an Indian on the first day of a Test at home, behind Wasim Jaffer's 192* against Pakistan in 2007 at Eden Gardens.
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Sampath Bandarupalli is a statistician at ESPNcricinfo