Yashasvi Jaiswal starts and ends Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy with centuries, scores his 6th Test ton at the Oval | Cricket News
Yashasvi Jaiswal on Saturday scored his sixth Test century off 125 balls as he led India’s charge against England on Day 3 of the fifth Test at the Oval. Jaiswal hit 11 fours and two sixes en route to the century, which is his second of the series. He has thus bookended the series with centuries, having scored one in the first innings of the first Test earlier.ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO
Jaiswal was dropped twice towards the end of Day 2 in which he took the attack to the opposition. The first was when he was on 20 with Harry Brook putting him down at second slip. Then he was given another chance quite spectacularly Liam Dawson while he was on 40, with the latter dropping it despite the ball coming straight to him at a rather comfortable pace.
On Day 3, Jaiswal took a backseat somewhat, letting Deep take more of the strike as is usually the case with nightwatchman in a first session. Deep took his chances and they ended up paying off for him. The pair put up a 107-run stand in 150 balls that was the source of much frustration for England.
Deep scored 66 in 94 balls before finally falling to Gus Atkinson after which Jaiswal saw in-form captain Shubman Gill fall off the very first ball of the third session on 11 off nine balls. Gill thus missed out on break Sunil Gavaskar’s long standing record for most runs an Indian in a Test series, finishing the Anderson-Tendulkar with an incredible 754 runs in 10 innings.
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