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News18
a day ago
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- News18
Jaiswal Needs 97 Runs In 2nd ENG Test To Break Gavaskar's 49-Year-Old Record
Last Updated: In 20 Tests played so far for Team India since making his debut against the West Indies in July 2023, Jaiswal has scored 1903 runs in 38 innings. Yashasvi Jaiswal will play as an opening batter for India in the second Test against England, which is set to take place at Edgbaston in Birmingham from July 2 to 6. The left-handed batter from Mumbai scored 101 runs from 159 balls for the Shubman Gill-led side in the first innings of the series opener played at Headingley in Leeds from June 20 to 24, and he would like to maintain his form in the second match as well. During the second Test, Jaiswal, who has 1903 runs to his name in 20 Tests played so far, will have a chance to create history. If the youngster manages to score at least 97 runs, then he will break Sunil Gavaskar's 49-year-old record and become the fastest Indian batter to score 2000 runs in Test cricket. Gavaskar, who was the first batter to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket, crossed the 2,000-run mark in the five-day format of the game in his 23rd Test, which was played against the West Indies in Port of Spain from April 7 to 12 in 1976. Gautam Gambhir is second on the list with 24 Tests whereas Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag completed 2000 runs in their 25th Test for India. The overall record of being the fastest batter in the world to score 2000 runs in Test cricket is in the name of legendary Don Bradman. Bradman crossed the 2000-run mark in his 15th Test for the Australian team. Fastest to 2000 runs in Tests (by innings) In terms of innings, the record of being the fastest batter(s) to score 2000 runs in Tests for India is held by Sehwag and Dravid, who needed 40 innings. Fastest Indian batters to score 2000 runs in Tests (in terms of innings) Jaiswal has batted 38 times so far, and if he scores 97 runs in the first innings of the Edgbaston Test, then he will break Sehwag and Dravid's record. Jaiswal, who is India's highest-ranked Test batter, has played a total of six Tests against England so far and has 817 runs to his name. If Jaiswal scores at least 97 runs in the first innings, then he will also break Rohit Sharma's record and become the fastest Indian batter to score 2000 runs in the World Test Championship (WTC). Rohit, who led India to the final of the 2023 WTC, completed 2000 runs in the WTC in 40 innings. The overall record of being the fastest batter to score 2000 runs in the WTC is in the name of Marnus Labuschagne. Fastest to 2000 runs in WTC (by innings) The right-handed batter from Australia completed his 2000th run in WTC in his 31st inning. Get latest Cricket news, live score and match results on News18. Download the News18 App to stay updated! tags : England India India vs England India vs England 2025 sunil gavaskar test cricket World Test Championship WTC Yashasvi Jaiswal Location : Birmingham First Published: June 27, 2025, 12:36 IST News cricket Jaiswal Needs 97 Runs In 2nd ENG Test To Break Gavaskar's 49-Year-Old Record
NDTV
2 days ago
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- NDTV
After Sunil Gavaskar Criticises Yashasvi Jaiswal's Fielding, Comes "Easy To Sit And Criticise" Retort From Ex-Coach
Yashasvi Jaiswal, despite scoring a ton for India vs England in the 1st Test in Leeds, got quite a lot of flak due to his fielding follies. During the entire Test, India dropped as many as eight catching opportunities, which tipped the scales in England's favour. The eight dropped chances cost India a whopping 250 runs, a valuable tally that held the power to change the visitors' fate. Yashasvi Jaiswal was the prime offender with four dropped chances, followed by other top fielders. Former India captain and batting legend Sunil Gavaskar was not pleased with the fielding of Team India. "I don't think there will be any medal given. T Dillip gives those after a match. This is what was really very, very disappointing. Yashasvi Jaiswal is a very good fielder but he hasn't been able to hold on to anything this time," Sunil Gavaskar, who was commentating, said. Stuart Broad was also critical. "Crucially, and I mean this in the kindest possible way, they have to take their catches. They can't lob three or four of them on the floor when you're trying to get 10 wickets to take a test match," he said. However, former India fielding coach R Sridhar has come in defence of Yashasvi Jaiswal. 'He's actually an excellent gully fielder. Make no mistake. He's had just two bad games — one in Melbourne, one here in Leeds. Otherwise, he's been exceptional. The catches he took against Bangladesh in Kanpur were outstanding. It's easy to sit in the commentary box and criticise, but these are challenging conditions, and for many of them, it's their first experience of this environment,' he told Sportstar. Sridhar, however, said that India's ground fielding level was not good at all. 'The standard of ground fielding which is exhibited is not acceptable. Unlike catching, ground fielding is something which is totally in your control. You should know which ball to put your body behind, which ball to attack, which ball to play safe,' he said. 'You know when to pick up the right cues, you know, based on the breeze. Wind is another big factor. As the television visuals showed, Leeds was extremely blustery and cold when we were fielding. But even then, Karun Nair took two brilliant catches, and so did KL Rahul.' The former coach urged everyone to show some patience with the Indian cricket team. 'Going on the first tour to England and adapting and being a good slip fielder is not an easy task. You can practice all you want, but in the match, it's quite challenging. The conditions are very cold, so the fingers get very numb. And secondly, the Duke's ball wobbles a lot as it comes towards you. It's not easy to catch," he said.
New York Times
2 days ago
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- New York Times
What I learned bowling at India's best batters: ‘Rishabh Pant smashes every ball'
With no wins in eight Test matches at Edgbaston, India may consider Birmingham the last place they would choose to try to bounce back from being on the wrong end of England's second-largest run chase in Test history. This is the task facing Shubman Gill's side following a chastening five-wicket defeat in the opening instalment of what is shaping up to be a classic series. Advertisement Losing hurt, but there were still positives to glean from Headingley, not least how a slice of cricket history was created by becoming the first India team to hit five centuries in the same Test match. The irrepressible Rishabh Pant led the way with a ton in each innings, while Gill, in his first Test as captain, reached three figures along with Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul. Considering India are supposed to be a top order in transition this year following the retirement of all-time greats Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, many were taken aback by how easily the runs flowed in Leeds. But not Abhay Negi, who plays as an all-rounder for New Farnley in the ECB Bradford League, one of the best amateur leagues in the country and where some players are paid. He spent the two days preceding the first Test bowling at the India squad as part of their preparations at Headingley. 'It was a great experience,' the 32-year-old tells The Athletic. 'I was there for four or five hours across the two days. I was nervous going. 'This is the national team. You are in front of all the names you see on TV, but then, I stuck to my usual thinking in that you all wear whites and there is no difference. 'So, I bowled what I wanted and that really helped me. I felt I bowled really well.' Born in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand, Negi's big chance to bowl at the best came thanks to the close proximity of Headingley to New Farnley, the club he joined as their overseas player in April. Four miles separate the two, so club officials contacted the Indian cricket hierarchy to ask if they required a net bowler, rather than overloading the players in the touring squad, during their time in West Yorkshire. Club cricketers are often brought in to help international teams prepare for Test matches. The answer came back 'yes', which is how the pace bowler found himself reporting for duty at Headingley 48 hours before the Bharat Army, effectively India's supporters' club, did the same for Friday's opening day of a five-Test series. Advertisement With Wednesday's net session compulsory for the entire squad, Negi found himself bowling at most of India's big names. Pant was not among them due to being in the adjacent net, where slow left-armer Mayank Mishra — like Negi, an Indian native playing club cricket in England this summer with Cleethorpes in the ECB Yorkshire Southern Premier League — was among those bowling to one of the game's brightest talents. 'Pant is very similar in the nets to how he played in the Test match,' says Negi. 'He just wanted to smash every bowler out of the park. My friend Mayank was bowling to him. 'He defended just one ball and (after that) my friend was like, 'Oh, cheers, Pant'. And they both started laughing. Every bowler, he just took on. Such an exciting player.' Another top-order batsman who caught Negi's eye in the nets was Gill, who, despite Thursday's session on the eve of the first Test being optional, insisted on spending as long as possible batting. 'I bowled quite a bit at Shubman Gill,' he says about the India captain, who hit a sublime 147 in the first innings. 'He looked very, very good. Batted for one hour and hit some really good shots.' New Farnley's Barry Jackson Ground is rightly regarded as one of the best on the Yorkshire club cricket circuit. There is a well-appointed clubhouse, with a bar that proves popular throughout the week with members, plus a sizeable pavilion opposite, which houses the dressing rooms and the scorebox. Seating is available around the boundary edge, including several tip-up seats that used to be found at Headingley. When Yorkshire County Cricket Club decided to upgrade their facilities, New Farnley offered a home to not only a few rows of discarded seating, but also the sightscreens that today sit at either end. To mark this recycling of facilities, a sign reading 'The Western Terrace' has been erected as a nod to one of cricket's more infamous stands four miles away at Headingley. New Farnley have ambitions to match their impressive home. Under the financial backing and leadership of chairman John Baldwin, they sit on top of the Bradford League, one of five ECB Premier League competitions spread across Yorkshire. Negi, having had three spells in English league cricket as an overseas player, joined for the 2025 season and made an immediate impression on debut with a wicket maiden in his first over, and the wickets have continued to fall, with 23 in 10 matches. Advertisement 'The Bradford League is a very good standard of cricket,' says the pace bowler, whose three stints in England came with Fulwood and Broughton in the Northern Premier (2021), Hastings & St Leonards Priory in the Sussex League (2022), and Paignton in the Devon League (2024). 'This is my fourth year in England. The appeal is to play cricket, but the financial side helps. I love cricket and just want to play and improve my game.' Negi follows a long line of distinguished Indian cricketers to appear in the Bradford League, including former Test players VVS Laxman (Hanging Heaton and Pudsey Congs), Dilip Vengsarkar (Hanging Heaton), Anil Kumble (Pudsey St Lawrence) and Wasim Jaffer (Spen Victoria). He boasts decent first-class experience back home in India, having made his professional debut in 2018. He has spent the past three seasons with Uttarakhand in the Ranji Trophy, the premier domestic competition for state and regional teams in India. It meant he had played competitively against three of India's XI in the first Test — opening batter Jaiswal, plus bowling duo Prasidh Krishna and Shardul Thakur — before facing them again in the nets. 'All the team were very good,' says Negi. 'Thanking me for going, asking where I had come from, where I play now. On the first day, everyone batted and bowled after starting with fielding as a warm-up. Then, I started bowling in the first net. This was at the bowlers, who wanted to bat. 'After being assessed and seeing I could bowl OK, I was switched to a net with the batters. They wanted a fast bowler because England have plenty of those.' Asked if the India coaching staff had any specific instructions beforehand, such as whether to bowl on a certain line or length, Negi replies: 'No, nothing like that. All they wanted was the experience of (facing) a new bowler they didn't know. 'I wanted to give them a real-time experience because I have been here for two months. When I was at Headingley, the wicket was flat and it was really sunny. Knowing a couple of the players I'd played against before probably helped. Advertisement 'Me and my mate Mayank were bowling constantly and it was such a good experience for both of us.' Headingley wasn't the first time Negi had helped an international team warm up for a big Test series. When playing for Hastings in 2022, he was drafted in to bowl at the New Zealand team before their three-match series against England. 1st XI v 1st XI 1st XI 3/1 (1) 0.3: Negi to Tahirkheli, OUT Kyme Tahirkheli b Abhay Negi 0 (3) — New Farnley CC (@NewFarnleyCC) June 21, 2025 Even so, it's still quite the thing to get a chance to bowl at arguably cricket's greatest powerhouse. 'I'd spoken to Alex (Lilley), our captain,' adds Negi, whose wife Mounika plays cricket as a batter/wicketkeeper. 'John (Baldwin) as well. I'd found bowling at New Zealand a great experience, so they really helped me a lot this time by making contact with the Indian team. 'I have New Farnley to thank for this really great experience. I would say to anyone, and especially to a young player, if they get the chance to bowl at these top players, they really should go down and do it. 'Then you'll know things like, 'Where am I? How much work do I need to do?'. You are learning at any age. I learned so many things.' Such as? 'The main thing being how you have to give everything in every ball,' replies Negi. 'Otherwise, one ball only has to be slightly wrong and it is gone. If I bowled a fraction short, I was punished. 'You also have to be on the stumps every single time or they will leave you. Trying to make you bowl fuller and then, bang, it is four runs, 'thank you very much'. The mindset is the big, big difference I found. That's why these guys are the very best.' (Top photos: Negi, left, and Rahul; by Richard Sutcliffe/The Athletic, Getty Images)
Time of India
2 days ago
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- Time of India
IND vs ENG Test: Why is Yashasvi Jaiswal dropping numerous catches? Ex-India cricketer cites possibility
LEEDS, ENGLAND - JUNE 24: Yashasvi Jaiswal of India drops a catch during Day Five of the 1st Rothesay Test Match between England and India at Headingley on June 24, 2025 in Leeds, England. (Photo by) Mohammed Kaif, one of the best fielders India had ever produced has pointed out the reasons why Yashasvi Jaiswal is dropping so many catches. Jaiswal had dropped four crucial catches against England in Leeds which cost India dearly and the visitors lost the match by five wickets as England chase down 371 runs on the final day. In the first innings, Ollie Pope attempted to guide a delivery from Jasprit Bumrah through the slip cordon but ended up edging it thickly. Positioned in the cordon, Yashasvi Jaiswal failed to grab the chance as the ball struck his wrists and fell to the ground. Pope capitalised on the reprieve and went on to score 106. 06:37 India Outplayed at Headingley | England Go 1-0 Up in the Series | IND vs ENG 1st Test Later in the same innings, Jaiswal put down another opportunity—this time offering a lifeline to Harry Brook. Brook, trying to steer Bumrah past the slips, edged it towards Jaiswal at fourth slip, who couldn't hold on to a straightforward catch. In England's second innings, Mohammed Siraj bowled a bouncer with a packed leg-side field. Jaiswal sprinted in from the deep, covered good ground, and got both hands to the ball, but failed to complete the catch. Siraj's frustration was evident, while Duckett—who benefited from the dropped chance—went on to score a match-winning 149. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Memperdagangkan CFD Emas dengan salah satu spread terendah? IC Markets Mendaftar Undo Kaif blamed the strap which Jaiswal has put around his hands playing a key role in youngster spilling so many catches. "Why is Yashasvi Jaiswal dropping catches? We are practicing with Duke's ball, and when we get hurt, we put a strap," Kaif said in a video posted on X. "In such a situation, the fingers are stuck and there is no free movement. You can't hold onto the catch because the strap becomes a sponge. "The ball bounces off it, so that's the drawback. The natural connection with the ball shouldn't be lost." The second Test between India and England will start from July 2 in Birmingham. Game On Season 1 continues with Mirabai Chanu's inspiring story. Watch Episode 2 here.
Hindustan Times
2 days ago
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- Hindustan Times
Reason for Yashasvi Jaiswal's multiple drop catches unearthed in sensational claim: 'Using a tape'
Despite dominant batting in the first Test match vs England, India crumbled to a five-wicket defeat on Wednesday. The first innings saw Yashasvi Jaiswal (101), skipper Shubman Gill (147) and Rishabh Pant (134) get tons. Then in the second innings, KL Rahul (137) got a century, and Pant once again responded with another ton, smacking 118 runs. India's Yashasvi Jaiswal misses a catch.(Action Images via Reuters) But it wasn't enough as England chased down the target of 371 runs with ease, and won the match on Day 5, with 84 balls to spare. Dropped catches were a constant in the first Test match as Indian fielders failed to capitalise on some easy chances. Jaiswal has been pushed into the scanner due to his poor fielding, and dropped four catches in the match in massive moments. In the first innings, Jaiswal was guilty of handing lifelines to Ollie Pope, Ben Duckett and Harry Brook. Then in the second innings, he dropped Duckett once again, when he was on 97. Mohammad Kaif passes his verdict Posting a video on X, former India cricketer Mohammad Kaif, considered to be one of the best fielders in cricket history, weighed in on Jaiswal's dropped catches, and defended the young opener with his analysis. 'Why is Yashasvi Jaiswal dropping catches? We are practicing with Duke's ball, and when we get hurt, we put a strap. In such a situation, the fingers are stuck and there is no free movement. You can't hold onto the catch because the strap becomes a sponge. The ball bounces off it, so that's the drawback. The natural connection with the ball shouldn't be lost,' he said. Jaiswal's dropped catches in the first innings also proved to be costly, as Pope got a ton, smacking 106 runs off 137 balls. Meanwhile, Brook (99) narrowly missed out on a century and Duckett (62) got a half-century. In the second innings, Duckett (149) went on to get a match-winning hundred.
