Yashasvi Jaiswal Century: Yashasvi Jaiswal returns to form, hits century in New Zealand ahead of Test series

Yashasvi Jaiswal Century in IND A vs NZ A: Team India's biggest worry ahead of the Test series in New Zealand has gone away. The Indian team's concern was the form of Yashasvi Jaiswal, who had been poor in the last few Test innings, failing to open his account in four of his previous nine innings. However, everything is fine now. Yashasvi has returned to successful form with his century on the final day of the second unofficial Test against New Zealand A in Christchurch. During this powerful innings, Yashasvi not only scored a brilliant century but also completed 5,000 runs in first-class cricket.

18 centuries, 5,000 runs and Yashasvi Jaiswal

Yashasvi Jaiswal completed his century off 119 balls against New Zealand A. He reached the century mark by hitting a six off 99 runs. This was the 18th century of his first-class career. During this century, Yashasvi Jaiswal also completed his 5,000 runs in first-class cricket. He completed 5,000 runs in the 102nd innings of his 56th first-class match.

After three low scores, Yashasvi Jaiswal hit a hundred in the second innings in the drawn second four-day game between New Zealand A and India A https://t.co/1Z28LMD91y https://t.co/yvp3B5GoZq

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Yashasvi Jaiswal faced pain while completing his century. He was batting on 87 runs during the 32nd over of India-A's second innings. New Zealand A bowler Jarrod McCoy bowled a bouncer on the second ball of the over, which hit his helmet hard. Yashaswi felt pain and looked a little uncomfortable when the ball hit his helmet. He underwent a concussion test. However, after the concussion test, he was fit to play.

This is not a century but the end of nine innings of failure.

The significance of Yashasvi Jaiswal's century against New Zealand A in Christchurch can be gauged from the statistics of his previous nine innings. He has only one fifty-plus score in those nine innings, including four duck outs. Three of those nine innings were against New Zealand A, in which he scored only 21 runs. But now, in the fourth innings against New Zealand A, he has scored a century that will give comfort to Team India as well as millions of Indian cricket fans