First Time In 91 Years! 4 Indian Batters Have Scored More Than...
Four batters—KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Rishabh Pant, and Ravindra Jadeja—have scored more than 400 runs for India in the ongoing series against England.
Ravindra Jadeja scored 107 runs from 185 balls for India in the second innings of the fourth Test against England. In the match that ended in a draw on Sunday (July 27), Jadeja came out to bat at No. 6 and hammered 13 fours and 1 six during his stay at the crease. He added an unbeaten 203 runs for the fifth wicket with Washington Sundar (101*) to help India avoid defeat at Old Trafford despite conceding a lead of 311 runs in the first innings.
During his 107-run knock, when Jadeja reached the 53-run mark, he completed 400 runs in the ongoing series.
Team India played its first-ever Test match in June 1932 against England at The Lord's but their first-ever Test series was played in 1933-34 at home against the English team. In that series (3-match assignment), Lala Amarnath finished as the top run getter for India. In six innings of three matches, he amassed a total of 203 runs.
Gill is India's leading run getter in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. With the help of one double century and three half-centuries, he has amassed a total of 722 runs so far. Rahul has 511 runs to his name, whereas Pant has scored 479 runs in seven innings.
Pant will, however, not take part in the fifth Test due to a foot injury that he suffered on Day 1 of the Manchester Test. Had Pant played in the fifth and final Test at The Oval from July 31 to August 4, he would have gotten a chance to break the record of scoring the most runs by a wicketkeeper-batter in a Test series for India. As of now the record is in the name of Budhi Kunderan. Kunderan amassed a total of 525 runs for India in the home series against England in 1965.
Gill will, however, have a chance to break the record of scoring the most runs in a Test series for India at The Oval. As of now, the record is in the name of Sunil Gavaskar, who amassed a total of 774 runs in four matches for the Ajit Wadekar-led side against the West Indies in 1971. Gill needs to score 53 more runs to go past that tally.
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