Mayank Yadav, once considered one of the most talented cricketers in domestic cricket. BCCI selectors could not ignore his playing technique and copybook cricket. Mayank got chances to shine for team India, where he made some good runs, a few centuries, and a record. But his performance never touched the height as projected before. Inconsistency was Mayank Yadav’s one of the drawbacks for shortening his international career. Still, he is one of the leading century getters for India in the history of the World Test Championship.
Mayank has not been able to make it to the Indian Test team since March 2022. Now it is also difficult to get a chance because Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill have entered the team. Captain Rohit Sharma will be in the opening role. Mayank has been batting in the opening or top order in the Test matches played before. In such a situation, given the balance of the team, it is very difficult to make their place.
Mayank Agarwal played a key role in Team India’s victory in the Indore Test match against Bangladesh in 2019. India this match batted only once, in which Mayank scored a double century and made the solution of the Bangladeshi bowlers unhappy. Mayank scored 243. His innings also included 28 fours and 8 sixes. His innings is also the best innings of international career so far. Mayank’s runs were so much that even once in both innings, Bangladesh’s team could not score a score equal to him alone. In the first innings,
Bangladesh’s team piled on 150 runs, while in the second innings they were all out for 213 runs. India won the match by an innings and 130 runs. Talking about Mayank Agarwal’s international record, he has made ODI and Test debuts for India. In ODIs, he has got a chance to play 5 matches, in which he has scored 86 runs. At the same time, he has scored 1488 runs in 36 innings of 21 Test matches.
During this, he has scored 4 centuries. 6 half-centuries have also come out of his bat. Mayank made his Test debut against Australia in 2018. At the same time, the Test match against Sri Lanka in 2022 was his last match. Since then, he has not got a place in the team so far.