On Monday, Day 4 of the ongoing second Test match between India and Bangladesh in Kanpur, several records were broken. When Blue Shirts were batting, records started to fall as they easily defeated the opposition bowlers. Bangladesh was bowled out for 233 on the fourth day, despite Mominul Haque (107*) hitting an uninterrupted century. India responded by declaring when they reached 285/8. IND put on some impressive batting performances in the first innings.
Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal scored a half-century off 51 balls, with 12 fours and two sixes. Meanwhile, KL Rahul batted in the middle order and scored 68 off 43 deliveries, including seven fours and two sixes. India beat the world mark for the quickest team fifty, formerly held by England. The opening combination of Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma dominated from the start, with Jaiswal hitting three successive fours off Hasan Mahmud in the first over.
India’s Aggressive Attack
Rohit smashed Khaled Ahmed for two sixes in the next over, and Jaiswal scored a boundary on the next ball. Rohit blasted Mahmud for a six in the third over. Jaiswal followed with another maximum and two fours to help the Blue Shirts reach 50 in three overs. India completed the feat in 18 balls, while England did it in 26 balls against the West Indies this year. The 55-run stand between Jaiswal and Rohit, which ended in the fourth over when Mehidy Hasan took out India’s captain, also set a new world record.
The partnership averaged 14.34 runs per over, breaking the previous record for the highest scoring rate in a Test partnership of 50 or more runs. The pair broke the previous record established by England’s Ben Duckett and Ben Stokes, who scored 87 runs in 44 balls at an average of 11.86 runs per over. Despite Rohit Sharma’s early loss, India’s aggressive attack continued, with Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill leading the team to the fastest team hundred in Test cricket history.
India’s Fastest 200 in Test
India reached this goal in just 10.1 overs, breaking their own world record set in 2023 when they made a century in 12.2 overs against the West Indies in Port of Spain. India achieved the world record for quickest team 100. The Blue Shirts also scored the quickest 200 in Test cricket history, accomplishing it in 24.2 overs. Australia previously owned the record, having reached the milestone in 29.1 overs against Pakistan in 2017.
Blue Shirts’ brilliant all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja also became the second-fastest player in Test cricket to reach the double milestone of 3,000 runs and 300 wickets, trailing only England’s Ian Botham. Jadeja achieved this milestone in 74 Tests, trailing only Ian Botham’s 72, becoming the 11th player in history to do so. He is the third Indian to achieve this extraordinary feat, following Kapil Dev and Ravichandran Ashwin. He became the fourth-fastest Indian to amass 300 Test wickets, trailing only Ashwin (54 matches), Anil Kumble (66), and Harbhajan Singh (72 matches).
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