Tamil Nadu opener N Jagadeesan broke the world document and have become the primary participant to attain 5 consecutive centuries, the primary by an Indian.
Jagadeesan achieved the feat throughout the spherical six group stage match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy towards Arunachal Pradesh with a 77-ball 100 on the M. Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore and surpassed legendary Sri Lanka batsman Kumar Sangakkara’s document of 4 consecutive centuries that the previous skipper recorded in 2014-15.
Amongst Indians, Devdutt Padikkal was the holder of the document until now with 4 back-to-back tons however Jagadeesan making good use of his red-hot type now holds the document with a document 5 consecutive centuries.
Earlier, on Saturday, the Tamil Nadu opener smashed his fourth consecutive century towards Haryana in Bengaluru.
Jagadeesan scored 128 off 123 deliveries and adopted his knocks of 114* (vs Andhra Pradesh), 107 (vs Chhattisgarh) and a Tamil Nadu Record A document of 168 within the earlier match towards Goa. All centuries have been made inside per week’s span.
Jagadeesan’s 5 centuries locations him on high of the document books as he surpassed Sangakkara, South African Alviro Petersen and Padikkal, who’ve hit 4 consecutive centuries in Record A cricket.
Sangakkara was the primary to succeed in the feat in 2015 throughout the ODI World Cup when he struck 4 consecutive tons whereas former South Africa opener Petersen equalled the mark whereas taking part in for Highveld Lions in South Africa. Padikkal had change into the primary Indian to slam 4 consecutive Record A tons throughout the 2020-21 Vijay Hazare Trophy.
Jagadeesan was lately launched by his IPL franchise Chennai Tremendous Kings forward of the IPL 2023 public sale, having purchased him earlier this 12 months for INR 20 lakh forward of the 2022 season.
