Opener with Most runs in a calendar year for India in Test Cricket: The Indian cricket team is currently witnessing the dominance of young batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal. This young batsman, who made his international cricket debut for India last year, has made many big records in his short career so far. At the same time, he has now broken a big record of former legendary Indian opener Virender Sehwag.
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The fourth Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia is being played at the historic MCG ground in Melbourne. Yashasvi Jaiswal made a special record in the second innings of this match. He batted brilliantly in the second innings and broke Virender Sehwag's record for scoring the most Test runs in a calendar year as an opener for India.
Yashasvi Jaiswal completed a brilliant half-century in the second innings of this match. During this, he surpassed Sehwag's record of 1462 runs made in a calendar year for India, which Veeru had made in the year 2008. Jaiswal has now become the opening batsman to score the most Test runs in a calendar year for India.
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Former great batsman Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for scoring the most runs in a calendar year in Test cricket for Team India. Sachin scored 1562 runs in 23 innings of 14 Test matches in the year 2010. Yashasvi Jaiswal has surpassed Sehwag's record in the 29th innings of the 15th Test match. Sehwag has now slipped to third place in the list. He scored 1462 runs in 27 innings of 14 Test matches in 2008.
The Melbourne Test proved to be the last Test of the year for Yashasvi Jaiswal. In this match, he scored half-centuries in both the innings but could not score a century. If he had scored big centuries in both the innings, he might have broken Tendulkar's record.
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