Rohit Sharma And Yashasvi Jaiswal Record: The first match of the two-match Test series between India and West Indies is being played in Dominica. On the very first day of this match, the Indian team made its dominance. At the same time, in this match, a 40-year-old record from India was also destroyed. In this match, left-handed batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal, who played first class cricket for Mumbai, made his international debut.
As soon as Rohit Sharma and Jaiswal came to the opening, the 40-year-old record in Test cricket for India was broken. In fact, in this Test match, what happened was the last time in 1983 that when two such openers came out to bat in the Test for India, who play first class cricket for Mumbai. Along with Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma also plays for Mumbai in first class cricket.
Ravi Shastri and Sunil Gavaskar did this for the last time in 1983. Now Rohit and Yashasvi have repeated this 4 decades old history. This test match of 1983 was played in Karachi. Ravi Shastri and Sunil Gavaskar have played first class cricket for Mumbai in their careers. In this first match being played against the West Indies, a total of four such players are playing for India along with Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal, who play for Mumbai. The remaining two players are vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane and fast bowler Shardul Thakur.
India looked strong on the very first day of the match
Batting first in this match, the West Indies team got all out for 150 runs. Ashwin took five wickets for the team. In response, the Indian team came out to bat for the first innings and put 80 runs on the board without losing any wicket till the end of the day. Captain Rohit Sharma, who came on the opening, returned unbeaten after scoring a personal score of 30 and Yashasvi Jaiswal 40 runs. Team India is now just behind by 70 runs.
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