Yashasvi Jaiswal turns into India’s seventeenth centurion on Test debut
Yashasvi Jaiswal has change into the seventeenth India batter to attain a century on Test debut, and the primary to take action exterior Asia in additional than 21 years. The 21-year-old reached the milestone on the second afternoon of the Dominica Test, bringing it up with a standing sweep for a single off the part-time bowling of fellow debutant Alick Athanaze.
Jaiswal opened the batting alongside captain Rohit Sharma, with Shubman Gill transferring all the way down to the No. 3 spot vacated by Cheteshwar Pujara’s axing. When he reached his hundred, off 215 balls, India had been 205 for no loss after that they had bowled West Indies out for 150 on day one.
Jaiswal has proven a exceptional urge for food for runs in each format he has performed. When he was referred to as up for this West Indies tour as a part of an India facet picked with an eye on the future, he had scored 1845 first-class runs at a median of 80.21, with 9 a whole bunch in simply 26 innings. His List A profession of 32 video games already features a double-hundred. And he was the fifth highest run-getter in IPL 2023, along with his 625 runs coming at a strike fee of 163.61.
Jaiswal has now introduced that urge for food to Test cricket. West Indies examined each openers whilst they struggled to separate them, on a gradual pitch that provided the spinners each flip and bounce. Right by means of his innings, Jaiswal was completely happy to indicate the endurance he required to earn his run-scoring alternatives. He took 16 balls to get off the mark on the primary night, and started the second morning by shouldering arms 5 occasions in a row to Jason Holder. By the time he reached his hundred, he had left or defended 56 of the 104 balls he confronted from West Indies’ quick bowlers.
At the identical time, he was additionally ready to take advantage of gaps within the subject with unorthodox pictures. He bought off the mark in Test cricket with an uppercut for 4, and he reverse-swept Jomel Warrican towards the flip for a boundary within the final over of day one.
When required to, Jaiswal was capable of shift a gear down and see out troublesome durations. Having hit seven fours whereas scoring his first 51 runs off 104 balls, he hit no boundaries and scored simply 19 runs off his subsequent 80 balls, a interval throughout which spinners Rahkeem Cornwall and Jomel Warrican beat each openers a number of occasions with sharp flip.
Having bought by means of that testing spell, although, and with Cornwall off the sphere with a chest an infection, Jaiswal opened up after lunch: he rushed from 70 to 100 in simply 31 balls, hitting 4 fours in that interval together with a dancing, inside-out drive off Warrican.
Of the 16 earlier India batters to attain centuries on Test debut, solely two – Shikhar Dhawan in 2013 and Prithvi Shaw in 2018 – opened the batting. And solely 5 scored their debut hundreds outside Asia, with Virender Sehwag the final to take action, in Bloemfontein again in November 2001.
Jaiswal’s innings additionally prolonged a proud run for gamers representing his Ranji Trophy crew: the final 4 Test-debut centurions for India have all been Mumbai batters, with Rohit, Shaw and Shreyas Iyer the three earlier than Jaiswal.