IND vs CLOSED: The Indian team is currently on a tour of Australia. Where a five-match Test series is being played between the two teams. In the first match of this series, the star young batsman of Team India Yashshwi Jaiswal was seen in great form. Despite being dismissed without opening the account in the first innings of the match, he made a brilliant comeback in the second innings and scored a half-century. He has troubled the Kangaroo bowlers with his brilliant batting. In the meantime, he got the world record in his name as soon as he hit two sixes in this match. He has become the batsman with most sixes in a calendar year in Test cricket. Earlier this record was held by Brendon McCullum of New Zealand.
Many sixes have been recorded in Jaiswal’s name
Before this match, Yashaswi Jaiswal had a total of 32 sixes in Test cricket this year. With two sixes in the second innings against Australia, he reached 34 sixes to his name and became number 1 in the list of most sixes in a calendar year by a batsman in Test cricket. Earlier in the year 2014, McCullum hit 33 sixes. In such a situation, let’s have a look at the list of such top 5 batsmen.
Top 5 batsmen to hit most sixes in Tests in a calendar year
- 34 – Yashshwi Jaiswal (2024)*
- 33 – Brendon McCullum (2014)
- 26 – Ben Stokes (2022)
- 22 – Adam Gilchrist (2005)
- 22 – Virender Sehwag (2008)
Great partnership with KL Rahul
The Indian team is looking very good in the first test match against Australia. After being bowled out for just 150 runs in the first innings of this match, everyone felt that this match was out of Team India’s hands, but after this the Indian bowlers bowled out Australia for just 104 runs and Team India’s opening batsmen then gave a great start to the second innings. Yashshwi Jaiswal shared a 150+ run partnership with KL Rahul.
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