On Thursday (September 5), Star Indian opener Yashasvi Jaiswal will be playing for India B in Duleep Trophy 2024 match against India A. M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru will host the match between Jaiswal’s side and the side led by Shubman Gill, where the 22-year-old left-handed batter will have a chance to make history as first batter to hit three double centuries in the tournament.
Jaiswal, who made his Test debut for India against West Indies last year at Dominica, has scored two double centuries so far while playing for West Zone in three Duleep Trophy matches. Both of his double centuries came during the 2022 version of this prestigious domestic tournament.
Jaiswal did make 228 runs from the 321 balls he faced in the quarterfinal match versus North East Zone that was held at Chennai (the 8th to 11th day of September). He went on to complete a total of 265 runs from a total of 323 balls faced during the final match against South Zone that took place at Coimbatore (21st September – 25th September).
Only six batters have twice scored double centuries in Duleep Trophy history. Arun Lal was the first batter to achieve this milestone when he managed scores of 214 and 287 in east zone for the year 1986 edition. In 1987, Lalchand Rajput joined him in this club after batting for the west zone against the central zone with an impressive score of 275 runs. The first double-century he made while playing with the west zone came up about the north zone back in 1985 season where it was 221.
Players to score two double centuries in Duleep Trophy:
PLAYER TEAM SCORE OPPOSITION VENUE YEAR
- Arun Lal East Zone 214 Central Zone Pune 1986
East Zone 287 West Zone Pune 1986
- Lalchand Rajput West Zone 221 North Zone Thiruvananthapuram 1985
West Zone 275 Central Zone Nagpur 1987
- Dinesh Mongia North Zone 201 South Zone Vijayawada 2001
North Zone 208 Central Zone Delhi 2001
- Yuvraj Singh North Zone 209 South Zone Faridabad 2002
North Zone 208 Central Zone Hyderabad 2012
- Manish Pandey South Zone 218 Central Zone Hyderabad 2011
South Zone 213 West Zone Chennai 2013
- Yashasvi Jaiswal West Zone North-East Zone 228 Chennai 2022
West Zone South Zone 265 Coimbatore 2022
Manish Pandey, a batter from Karnataka who was never given a chance to play Test cricket for India is notable for scoring 218 runs in 2011 for the South Zone against the Central Zone and 213 runs against the West Zone in 2013.
In the last Test series for India, Jaiswal was in red-hot form as he became the fastest Indian batter to reach 1000 runs in Test cricket history. Earlier this year alone against England at home in five matches he recorded a total of 712 runs which is considered as the maximum number of runs scored by an Indian batsman when playing against England during the series.
