Team India Sets a New Record

Indian batsmen has hit four consecutive double centuries in test matches and created history.
Team India Sets a New Record

Mayank Agarwal has created a history by scoring his second double century. By this Double century, India has sets a new world record. India becomes first team to hit four consecutive double centuries in test matches. Mayank Agarwal started the Indian team scoring double centuries in Test Matches from Visakhapatnam. Mayank Agarwal had scored 215 runs at Vizag. After this, captain Virat Kohli played an unbeaten 254 against South Africa in Pune. At the same time, in the last match of this series, Rohit Sharma hit a double century in Ranchi, which was his first double century in Tests.

Mayank Agarwal was out for 243 runs in the Indore Test match. However, before this, a world record was made by the Indian team. In the history of more than 100 years of Test cricket, the Indian team has done what no team was able to do till now. This is the first time that India has scored four double centuries in four consecutive Test matches.

Four double centuries in four consecutive Tests

Mayank Agarwal – 215 runs, Visakhapatnam.

Virat Kohli – 254 runs, Pune.

Rohit Sharma – 212 runs, Ranchi.

Mayank Agarwal – 243 runs, Indore.

Mayank Agarwal, the opening batsman of the Indian Test team, faced a total of 330 balls in this match, in which he scored 243 runs with the help of 28 fours and 8 sixes. Mayank's strikerate during this period stood at 73.64. Mayank Agarwal has equaled Navjot Singh Sidhu, who hit 8 sixes in a Test innings in terms of hitting the most sixes in an innings for India.

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