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Yashasvi Jaiswal will play for West Zone within the 2025 edition of the Duleep Trophy, which is about to start out on Thursday, August 28, in Bengaluru.
Yashasvi Jaiswal will play for West Zone in Duleep Trophy 2025. (Picture Credit: PTI)
Yashasvi Jaiswal, who’s India’s top-ranked Test batter in ICC rankings, will play for West Zone within the 2025 edition of the Duleep Trophy. The left-handed batter will take the sector for the Shardul Thakur-led side of their semifinal match at BCCI Centre of Excellence Ground B in Bengaluru from September 4 to 7. Within the upcoming season of the premier domestic competition, Jaiswal could have a likelihood to create history and enter his name in record books.
If Jaiswal, who has scored 536 runs in seven innings of 4 Duleep Trophy matches played to this point for India B and West Zone, manages to attain a double century this yr, then he’ll develop into the primary player on the planet to attain three double centuries within the Duleep Trophy.
As of now, a complete of six batters – Arun Lal, Lalchand Rajput, Dinesh Mongia, Yuvraj Singh Manish Pandey and Jaiswal have scored two double centuries each within the Duleep Trophy.
Arun Lal was the primary batter to realize the feat. He scored 214 and 287 runs for East Zone within the 1986 edition of the tournament. Lalchand Rajput joined him within the elite list by scoring 275 runs for West Zone against Central Zone within the 1987 edition. His first double century (221) for West Zone was against North Zone within the 1985 edition.
Dinesh Mongia scored two double centuries (201 and 208) for North Zone within the 2001 Duleep Trophy, and Yuvraj Singh hammered 209 and 208 runs for North Zone in 2002 and 2012, respectively.
Players to attain two double centuries in Duleep Trophy
| PLAYER | TEAM | SCORE | OPPOSITION | VENUE | YEAR | |
| 1. | Arun Lal | East Zone | 214 | Central Zone | Pune | 1986 |
| East Zone | 287 | West Zone | Pune | 1986 | ||
| 2. | Lalchand Rajput | West Zone | 221 | North Zone | Thiruvananthapuram | 1985 |
| West Zone | 275 | Central Zone | Nagpur | 1987 | ||
| 3. | Dinesh Mongia | North Zone | 201 | South Zone | Vijayawada | 2001 |
| North Zone | 208 | Central Zone | Delhi | 2001 | ||
| 4. | Yuvraj Singh | North Zone | 209 | South Zone | Faridabad | 2002 |
| North Zone | 208 | Central Zone | Hyderabad | 2012 | ||
| 5. | Manish Pandey | South Zone | 218 | Central Zone | Hyderabad | 2011 |
| South Zone | 213 | West Zone | Chennai | 2013 | ||
| 6. | Yashasvi Jaiswal | West Zone | North-East Zone | 228 | Chennai | 2022 |
| West Zone | South Zone | 265 | Coimbatore | 2022 |
Karnataka batter Manish Pandey, who never got a likelihood to play Test cricket for India, scored 218 runs for South Zone against Central Zone in 2011 and 213 runs for Central Zone against West Zone in 2013.
Jaiswal made 228 runs from 321 balls within the quarterfinal match played against North East Zone in Chennai (September 8-11) after which amassed a complete of 265 runs from 323 balls in the ultimate played against South Zone in Coimbatore (September 21-25).
Jaiswal, who’s the fastest Indian batter in history to attain 2000 runs in Test cricket, scored 412 runs within the recently concluded Test series against India. He scored a century (101) in the primary innings of the primary Test and within the second innings (118) of the fifth Test.
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