India are currently taking on West Indies in the final Test of the two-match series at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Shubman Gill won the toss and elected to bat first, and Team India have been taking the visiting bowling attack apart, having lost just one wicket till Tea.
The wrecker-in-chief for Team India has been none other than Yashasvi Jaiswal. The left-handed opening batter continued his sparkling run in the longest format, as he smashed yet another hundred. With his ton, Jaiswal has managed to equal a massive world record.
Yashasvi Jaiswal, at just 23 years old, has managed to score his 7th Test century. He has scored all of them opening the batting. He is now the opener with the joint-most number of centuries before turning 24 years old. He shares the record with Graeme Smith, who too scored 7 centuries for South Africa before turning 24.
Here are the openers to score the most number of hundreds before turning 24 years old:
| Player | Country | Centuries |
| Yashasvi Jaiswal | India | 7 |
| Graeme Smith | South Africa | 7 |
| Kraigg Brathwaite | West Indies | 5 |
| Alastair Cook | England | 5 |
| Len Hutton | England | 5 |
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Jaiswal is also the first Indian opener to hit seven hundreds before turning 24 years old. He is only the second Indian overall to do so. Sachin Tendulkar scored 11 hundreds before turning 24.
Yashasvi Jaiswal also becomes the second opener in history, after Rohit Sharma, to score seven hundreds in the history of the World Test Championship. The former India captain has scored 9 hundreds in WTC history.
Jaiswal also goes past Rohit Sharma to become the first Indian opener in this decade to hit 7 Test centuries. From 2020-2025, Rohit had hit 6 centuries.