Sehwag’s 16-year-old record was broken by Yasswi Jaiswal

A record of Virender Sehwag in Test cricket was broken on Saturday. Yashshwi played an innings of 73 runs off 117 balls in the first innings of the Ranchi Test. He decorated his innings with 8 fours and 1 six.

That is a new precedent.Sehwag holds the record for most sixes in Tests among Indian cricketers in a calendar year. 22 sixes came from the former opener’s bat in 2008. Yasaswi hit his 23rd Test six in 2024 in Ranchi on Saturday. On the 55th day of this year, Tarun broke Sehwag’s record for most sixes. the batter There are still 311 days left in the year. Naturally, Yasaswi will get plenty of opportunities to improve his record. Sehwag hit 22 sixes in 27 innings of 14 Tests in 2008. Yasshwi broke that record in the ninth innings of five Tests. On Saturday, Yashaswi set a new precedent by hitting England spinner Shoaib Bashir for six.

Rishabh Pant dropped to the third place in this list as Yasaswi topped Sehwag. He hit 21 sixes in Test cricket in 2022. Rohit Sharma is in fourth place. Indian team captain hit 20 sixes in red ball cricket in 2019. Fifth place in the list is Mayank Agarwal. In 2019, he hit 18 sixes in Tests.