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On the first day of the third match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy Test Series AUS vs ENG, 2023 being played between India and Australia in Indore, India’s fast bowler Umesh Yadav made such a record in his short batting innings in India’s first innings batting. Which put him on par with Virat Kohli and overtook former Team India captain Ravi Shastri.
Significantly, on the first day of this match, India won the toss and elected to bat first. In which Australia’s deadly bowling piled on Team India’s warriors for 109 runs. Meanwhile, India’s fast bowler Umesh Yadav during his batting hit 2 amazing sixes off Australia’s bowler Kuhnman. With these 2 fresh sixes, he equaled Virat Kohli’s tally of 24 sixes in his international Test cricket career.
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Not only this, he broke the record of former Indian team captain Ravi Shastri’s Test career record of 22 sixes and went ahead of him in terms of hitting most sixes in Test cricket.
The history of international Test cricket tells that in this case Virender Sehwag with 91 sixes is on top among the Indian players. Mahendra Singh Dhoni has hit 78 sixes during his career. Since Virat Kohli hits ground shots more, he has only 24 sixes in his account.
It is worth mentioning that Umesh Yadav, who came to bat in the lower order, scored an inning of 17 runs in 13 balls, in which his wonderful 2 sixes were included. Due to his innings of 17 runs, Team India’s score crossed 100 runs.
-Vinay Kumar
