Yashasvi Jaiswal is just 1 run away from going past Virat Kohli's second-highest tally in the list of most runs by an Indian batter in a bilateral of three or more Tests.

If and when Jaiswal gets off the mark in the India vs England fifth Test at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala, starting Thursday, the left-hander will go past Kohli's total of 655 runs, which he had scored in the home series against England in 2016-17. In four Tests, Yashasvi Jaiswal has racked up 655 runs at an average of 93.57 with two double centuries. Kohli too had smashed two double centuries in that 2016-17 series against England. If Jaiswal manages to score 38 runs in two innings combined then he will go past Kohli's all-time best tally. The former India captain, who is missing the entire England series due to the birth of his second child, had amassed 692 runs in Australia in 2014-15. The kind of form Jaiswal is in, it would be a surprise if he doesn't beat Kohli and in fact, the left-handed opening batter has a realistic chance of breaking Sunil Gavaskar's all-time record for the highest runs in a series by an Indian. Jaiswal's stellar show against England has already placed him in a venerated league alongside Gavaskar, Kohli, Dilip Sardesai and Rahul Dravid as the only Indian batters to amass more than 600 runs in a Test series. No Indian has scored more than 700 runs in a series other than Gavaskar, whose greatness is illustrated by the fact he did it twice against West Indies (1971 and 1978-79). In 1971, in a series comprising four Tests, Gavaskar had only one failure - he was dismissed for 1 in the first innings of the third Test in Barbados. His other scores were 65, 67*, 116, 64*, 117*, 124 and 220, embodying the work ethic and 'khadoos' mentality of Bombay batters who would seldom give away a start.