After RR put KKR to bat first at the Eden Nurseries in Kolkata, the hosts could reach to 149/8. Albeit the pitch offered something for the spinners, it appeared Jaiswal batted on an alternate track by and large. Jaiswal didn’t back down after his team had Jos Buttler run out in the second over and kept putting a lot of pressure on the KKR bowlers.
He reached his half-century in just 13 balls thanks to seven fours and three sixes. With a well-constructed 29-ball 48*, captain Sanju Samson also complemented his young opener very well. With his standout capacity to stir things up around town strongly, that as well, with strange timing, Jaiswal put on a serious act for RR. Aside from utilizing his feet to trudge, he likewise cut, pulled, and drove amazingly well.
Jaiswal helped his team surpass the total with as many as nine wickets and 6.5 overs remaining, despite missing out on a well-deserved century. In addition, Yashasvi Jaiswal’s run that won the match set several IPL records. Let’s take a look at three of those records that were broken by his special knock in the game between KKR and RR that just finished.
3) Most shows to a solitary player in the first over of an IPL innings
Jaiswal established his authority over the KKR bowlers from the beginning. Nitish Rana, captain of KKR, made an odd decision by choosing himself to bowl the first over of the innings.
To begin the innings, Jaiswal crushed consecutive sixes before crushing three fours and a double off the next four balls to score 26 runs in the first over. The most runs a batter has scored in the first over of an IPL innings is now 26 for Jaiswal.
Past best was by Prithvi Shaw, who scored 24 goes against Shivam Mavi in IPL 2021.
2) Most shows to an Indian uncapped player in a solitary IPL season
So far, the 21-year-old is having an amazing season. Jaiswal has scored 575 runs in 12 innings of the IPL 2023 so far, scoring at an amazing strike rate of 167.15 and an average of over 52.
Jaiswal’s 575 runs in the tournament are already the most by an Indian uncapped batter in a single IPL season, even though he is only two runs behind the Orange Cap of this season.
Following his 98*-run thump, Jaiswal overwhelmed Ishan Kishan’s record of 516 runs, which he scored for the Mumbai Indians (MI) during 2020 as an uncapped player.
1) The most rapid IPL half century ever
The brave opener, in transit to his critical thump of 98*, came to his 50 years in only 13 balls, in this manner making the holder of the record for the quickest fifty in the IPL history.
Jaiswal stopped playing dot balls when he turned fifty. The young man broke KL Rahul and Pat Cummins’ previous record, which was set by taking 14 balls to reach fifty.
Jaiswal’s fifty off 13 balls is currently joint-second fastest in total T20s. Yuvraj Singh (for India), Chris Gayle (for Melbourne Renegades), and Hazratullah Zazai (for Kabul Zwanan) still hold the record for the fastest T20 half-century, each scoring it in 12 balls.