Yashasvi Jaiswal created history by scoring a century in Perth, equaled Sachin

Yashasvi Jaiswal’s century equaled Sachin Tendulkar’s record: Yashasvi Jaiswal scored a century in the first match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy being played against Australia in Perth. With this century, Jaiswal equaled former Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar. Jaiswal completed his century with the help of 8 fours and 3 sixes in 205 balls on a difficult pitch.

This was Jaiswal’s third Test century in the calendar year 2024, He equaled Sachin Tendulkar At present Jaiswal’s age is 22 years 332 days. Whereas the great Tendulkar had scored 3 centuries before the age of 23 in the calendar year of 1992. In this way Jaiswal equaled Sachin Tendulkar.

Sunil Gavaskar and Vinod Kambli jointly top this list. Gavaskar scored 4 centuries in the calendar year of 1971. Apart from this, Vinod Kambli had scored 4 centuries in the calendar year of 1993.

Most Test centuries before the age of 23 (India)
4 centuries – Sunil Gavaskar
4 centuries in 1971 – Vinod Kambli
3 centuries in 1993 – Ravi Shastri 3 centuries in 1984
– Sachin Tendulkar 3 centuries in 1992
– Yashasvi Jaiswal in 2024.

With this, Jaiswal became the third Indian batsman to score a century on his first tour of Australia. The first person to achieve this feat was Motaganahalli Jayasimha, who scored a century in Brisbane in 1967–1968. Then in 1977-1978, Sunil Gavaskar became the second Indian to achieve this feat. Gavaskar also scored a century in Brisbane. Now Jaiswal has achieved this feat in Perth.

Who scored most Test centuries for India before the age of 23?
Jaiswal has joined the list of Indian batsmen who have scored the most Test centuries before the age of 23. This was Jaiswal’s fourth century. Sachin Tendulkar tops this list with 8 centuries.