Rohit Sharma-Yashasvi Jaiswal power India to fastest fifty in Test cricket hory | Cricket News
After the bowlers restricted Bangladesh to 233 in the second session of Day 4 in Kanpur, the Indian openers combined to score the fastest team fifty in Test cricket hory on Monday.
Indian captain Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal brought up the team milestone off just 18 deliveries, beating the previous best record set England (26 balls) earlier this year against West Indies in Nottingham.
At the end of the third over, while Jaiswal had pounded 30 runs off 13 deliveries, Rohit Sharma had contributed 19 runs off his 16 deliveries.
Fastest team fifty in Test cricket
The Indian innings began with Jaiswal collecting three successive boundaries from Hasan Mahmud’s first over. It was followed Rohit Sharma taking the gear up a notch with consecutive maximums off his first two deliveries.
The third over of the innings though, was the most expensive as Mahmud leaked 22 runs, which included two fours and as many sixes.
The partnership was eventually broken in the fourth over as Mehidy Hasan Miraz cleaned up Rohit. Jaiswal went on to score his second half-century of the series, ending up with 72 runs off just 51 balls.
The hosts finished the second session of the day at 138/2 after 16 overs with Shubman Gill (37) and Rishabh Pant (4) – centurions in the Chennai Test – unbeaten in the middle, with India trailing 95 runs.
Earlier, Day 4 of the second Test between India and Bangladesh resumed the action after a two-and-a-half days hiatus owing to rain and wet outfield. Mominul Haque punched a century for the visitors but the Indian bowling attack was able to clean up Bangladesh in 74.2 overs with Jasprit Bumrah finishing with three wickets. Mohammed Siraj, Ravichandran Ashwin and Akash Deep claimed a couple wickets each.
