Jayant Yadav Wiki, Biography, Age, Spouse, Net Worth, Fast Facts

This was the fifth and final game of that series and was the decider as the series was tied 2-2. Jayant had delivered clean figures of 1/8 from 4 overs as India had beaten New Zealand with just 79 runs from 23.1 overs. This was then, at the time, New Zealand’s shortest against India and their shortest final innings in an ODI match.

His next ODI match for India was more than 5 years after the fact, against South Africa, in January 2022. Until March 2022, these were the 2 main ODI matches he had played. He made his Test match debut for India in November 2016, in a home match against England.

Unintentionally, his ODI and Test debuts were in a similar setting: the Dr. YS Rajasekhara Reddy International Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. In the second innings of that match, he was India’s best bowler with figures of 3/30 in 11.3 overs, helping his group overtake England with 158 runs.

India proceeded to dominate that game with 246 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the 5-match series.

By the next match in that series, he had scored 55 runs from the No. 9 position in India’s first innings outright of 417 runs. This inning had given India the main case, and only the fourteenth example overall, of batsmen in batting positions 7, 8 and 9, who had scored more than 50 runs in similar innings.

In the next game of that series, he had come on to bat in the first innings for India with a score of 364-7. He proceeded to score 104 runs from 204 balls and had extended India’s score to 605 when he was excused. This was Jayant’s first century in a Test match and the first century for an Indian batsman batting in the number 9 position. India went on to dominate the game by one innings and 36 runs and had reached their record for sequential Test matches. without losing (17).