Bengaluru: Mumbai teenager Yashasvi Jaiswal on Wednesday smashed his way into the record books by becoming the youngest player to score a List A double century.
Playing in his debut Vijay Hazare season, the 17-year-old scored 203 off 154 balls, which included 12 sixes and 17 fours against a Jharkhand attack that included out-of-favour India pacer Varun Aaron and Shahbaz Nadeem. Jaiswal broke the record of Alan Barrow, who scored a double ton when he was 20 years and 273 days old in South Africa’s domestic cricket way back in 1975.
Jaiswal has been in fine form in the tournament, scoring 113 and 122 against Kerala and Goa respectively.
The opener made it the ninth instance of an Indian scoring a List A double ton.
The feat comes less than a week after Sanju Samson scored 212 not out - his first List A century - for Kerala against Goa, making it the highest individual score in the competition.
• List A cricket includes One-Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the number of overs in an innings per team ranges from 40 to 60, as well as some international matches involving nations who have not achieved ODI status.
