Yashasvi Jaiswal: Ignored in T20Is and ODIs, unstoppable in Tests

Yashasvi Jaiswal continued with his rich form with the bat and after missing out in the series opener in Ahmedabad, the southpaw smashed a blistering hundred in the India vs West Indies 2^nd Test in Delhi.

Let's get one thing straight - Even if Yashasvi Jaiswal is being benched in T20Is, there’s absolutely no way India’s Test playing XI can be made without him. No chance.

He’s just 23 and already has 7 Test hundreds. In fact, since his debut, all other Indian openers combined have scored 6 hundreds in whites. And Jaiswal alone has gone one better than that. Among all teams, the next best by any opener in the same period is 4 centuries - by England’s Ben Duckett.

That’s not all, only 3 players in history had scored more centuries before turning 24: Don Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar, and Garfield Sobers. That’s some elite company to be in.

12 - Don Bradman

11 - Sachin Tendulkar

9 - Garfield Sobers

7 - Jaiswal, Javed Miandad, Graeme Smith, Alastiar Cook and Kane Williamson

As far as Indian batters are concerned, only Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar had more Test hundreds than Jaiswal at 23.

11 - Sachin Tendulkar

7* - Yashasvi Jaiswal

5 - Ravi Shastri and Dilip Vengsarkar

With this brilliant knock, Jaiswal also became just the sixth batter in Indian history to score 3000 runs by the age of 23. He’s got his entire career ahead of him. And if he keeps batting like this, he’s well on track to become the greatest Indian opener in Test cricket history.

Vs Year

171 WI 2023

209 ENG 2024

214* ENG 2024

161 AUS 2024

101 ENG 2025

118 ENG 2025

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