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The first test match is going on between India and Bangladesh. Both the teams are playing the first test match at Chennai's Chepauk ground. Bangladesh captain has won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, the Indian team has scored 238 runs in 60 overs till the third session.
However, the team has lost the wickets of players like captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill as well as KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant. Yashasvi Jaiswal was also out after scoring 56 runs. The pair of Ashwin and Jadeja are present at the crease and have made a partnership of 94 runs in 111 balls. Meanwhile, Yashasvi Jaiswal has achieved a big achievement.
Yashasvi Jaiswal became number-2
Yashasvi Jaiswal, who came to open for the Indian cricket team, has achieved a big feat in this match. Yashasvi Jaiswal has become the second highest run scorer in the world in this season's World Test Championship. Before this match, Yashasvi Jaiswal had scored a total of 1047 runs in this season of the Test Championship. He has come to the second position in terms of scoring runs. England's Ben Dockett has reached the third position.
Which batsman is at number 1?
England's legendary cricketer Joe Root is the highest run-scorer in this season of the World Test Championship. Joe Root has scored a total of 1398 runs. Yashasvi Jaiswal has a chance to achieve the number 1 position by performing brilliantly against Bangladesh. Yashasvi Jaiswal is still 370 runs away from Joe Root.
Big achievement of Yashasvi Jaiswal
Yashasvi Jaiswal scored fifty plus for the 8th time by scoring a half-century against Bangladesh. Only 3 players have been able to achieve this feat in the history of Indian cricket. Earlier Sadagopan Ramesh had achieved this feat and now Jaiswal has equaled it. After 10 Tests, Sunil Gavaskar's highest score is 9 fifty plus. Jaiswal still has to play one more innings in the Chennai Test, if he scores fifty plus in that too, then he will equal Gavaskar.
