India, June 20 -- Yashasvi Jaiswal has done what no other batter in the history of cricket could ever achieve. Viv Richards, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid. Jacques Kallis, Kumar Sangakkara, Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers. No one. Batters of different eras, belonging to different teams but no one even came close to achieving Jaiswal's feat. The India opener smashed his fifth Test century in the series opener of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy at Headingley in Leeds.

This was Jaiswal's fifth Test century overall, third against England and first in England in his first attempt. In the process, Jaiswal became the first visiting batter ever to register centuries on his maiden Test in both England and Australia.

The 23-year-old In...