New Delhi. Yashasvi Jaiswal created a blast as soon as he came on the field on Wednesday. Yashasvi, who was forced to sit on the bench throughout the T20 World Cup, showed the same game for which he is known when he came against Zimbabwe. Yashasvi Jaiswal gave a fast start to India and during this he also broke a record of Rohit Sharma. Yashasvi played an innings of 36 runs in 27 balls in the match.
India defeated Zimbabwe by 23 runs in the third T20 match. Captain Shubman Gill scored the maximum 66 runs for India in this match. Rituraj Gaikwad played an inning of 49 runs and Yashasvi Jaiswal played an inning of 36 runs. With the help of all this, India scored 182 runs for 4 wickets. In response, Zimbabwe team could only score 159 runs for 6 wickets. Washington Sundar, who took three wickets, was adjudged Player of the Match.
Even though Yashasvi Jaiswal, playing for the Indian team after almost 4 months, could not convert his innings into a half-century, he made a big record in his name during this period. Yashasvi has become the highest run scoring batsman in the year 2024. This year he has scored 848 runs combining all three formats. Before this match, the highest run scorer in 2024 was Indian Rohit Sharma. He has scored 833 runs this year. Yashasvi has left him behind and has come at number one.
If we look at the list of batsmen in the world who scored the most runs in 2024, then Yashasvi Jaiswal is at number one. Ibrahim Zadran of Afghanistan is at second place (844). After this, Kusal Mendis (833) and Rohit Sharma (833) are jointly at third place. Rahmanullah Gurbaz of Afghanistan (773) is at fifth place in this list.
Indian legend Virat Kohli is not even in the top-10 in this list. The reason for this is also that Kohli had distanced himself from cricket after February due to personal reasons. After February, Kohli directly entered the T20 World Cup for the Indian team. Virat played a match-winning inning of 76 runs in the final of the T20 World Cup.
Tags: India vs Zimbabwe, Number Game, Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal
FIRST PUBLISHED: July 11, 2024, 07:28 IST
