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England vs India 5th Test: India scripted history with a remarkable performance with the bat in the second innings of the ongoing fifth Test against England at the Kennington Oval on Saturday.

Yashasvi Jaiswal smashed an impressive century to keep India ahead with a big lead. This was his sixth century in Test cricket as he continued his love affair with England. Having departed cheaply in the first innings, the left-handed batter made it count in the second innings, solidifying India's position in the game. India are in desperate need of a win at the Oval to draw the ongoing five-match Test series as they currently are trailing 1-2.

Indian batters have scored 12 centuries in the ongoing series against England. This is the highest number of tons registered by India in a single Test series, surpassing their previous record of 11 centuries in 1978 in the home series against the West Indies.

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Overall, this is now the third-highest number of individual tons in a single series. Australia and the West Indies hold the record, as batters from the two teams smashed 21 centuries in a series in 1955.

India also equalled Australia's world record of scoring the most 100s in a Test series by a visiting side. During the 1955 Test series against the West Indies team in the Caribbean islands, Australian batters scored a total of 12 centuries.

Centuries by Indian batters in ongoing series vs England

Shubman Gill: 4 centuries in 5 matches

KL Rahul: 2 centuries in 5 matches

Rishabh Pant: 2 centuries in 4 matches

Yashasvi Jaiswal: 2 centuries in 5 matches

Ravindra Jadeja: 1 century in 5 matches

Washington Sundar: 1 century in 5 matches

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Jaiswal's hundred came as a huge boost for India in the second session, especially after the huge wicket of Shubman Gill, who was dismissed for just 11 runs. The Indian skipper fell on the very first delivery of the second session and, as a result, he failed to break Sunil Gavaskar's record of most runs scored by an Indian in a single Test series.

Gill finished the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy with 754 runs to his name. Gavaskar had scored 774 runs in the 1971 series against the West Indies. Earlier in the series, India scored 3,000 runs in a Test series in England, bettering their previous best of 2,666 runs in the 2021-22 series.

During the first session on the third day of the Oval Test, the English bowlers witnessed massive frustration as the nightwatchman Akash Deep smashed his maiden Test fifty. He stitched a 107-run partnership with Jaiswal for the third wicket as the duo extended India's lead in the second innings.

 

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