Another big record broken with the bat of Yashasvi Jaiswal, leaving behind the greats including Kohli in this list.

Cricket News Desk. The second match of the three-match Test series between India and New Zealand is being played in Pune. On the third day of the game, the Kiwis were all out for 255 runs in their second innings. Team India has got a target of 359 runs in the fourth innings to win this match. Indian team's opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal was successful in performing brilliantly with the bat in the third day's play and he scored 77 runs in an innings for India in a year and broke the 45 year old record.

Yashasvi Jaiswal broke Gundappa Vishwanath's record
While Yashasvi Jaiswal now holds the record for the most runs scored by an Indian team in a year at home in Test cricket, the previous record was held by Gundappa Vishwanath, who played 13 Test matches at home. Year 1979. Scored a total of 1048 runs at an average of 61.58, whereas Yashasvi Jaiswal left him behind and scored 1056 runs at an average of 66 in the domestic test in 2024, in which he scored 2 centuries and 7 half-centuries. Now these figures of Jaiswal are sure to increase. Because the Indian team still has to play one more match of this test series against New Zealand.

Players who have scored the most test runs for India at home in a year
Yashasvi Jaiswal- 1056 runs (year 2024)

Gundappa Vishwanath – 1047 runs (year 1979)

Virat Kohli – 964 runs (2016)

Virat Kohli – 898 runs (2017)

Dilip Vengsarkar – 875 runs (year 1987)

Sunil Gavaskar – 865 runs (year 1979)

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