In the past, he pursued his passion of playing cricket by living in tents and selling meals on the street. Yashasvi Jaiswal, a player with blazing skill, has recently been the talk of the Indian Premier League.
On Thursday, the 21-year-old batsman extended his incredible season by setting a new record for the quickest fifty in the history of the Indian Premier League by reaching that milestone off of just 13 balls while leading Rajasthan Royals to a victory over Kolkata Knight Riders.
This is Jaiswal’s fourth fifty-point score in the competition so far this year. “Wow, I haven’t seen hitting like this in a long. This is some of the finest it’s ever been. “What a talent,” the famous Indian batsman Virat Kohli posted on Instagram. “What a talent.”
In front of a massive audience in Mumbai, the city that Jaiswal migrated to as a boy from a destitute family in Uttar Pradesh, he scored 124 runs off 62 balls a month ago. Jaiswal’s family came from Uttar Pradesh.
“He truly possesses a lot of talent. The type of success he experienced throughout the domestic season has carried over into the Indian Premier League. “Good for him, good for Indian cricket, and good for RR as well,” said Rohit Sharma, the captain of India across all formats of the game.
Jaiswal is in contention to end the Indian Premier League season as the player with the most runs scored. He is now just one run behind Faf du Plessis, a South African veteran who has scored 575 runs throughout 12 matches.
Only Suryakumar Yadav’s strike rate is lower among the top 15 run-scorers in this season’s competition than his own 167.15 strike rate. When Jaiswal was just 11 years old, he uprooted his life and came to Mumbai without his parents.
“I used to sleep in a dairy, and then I stayed at my uncle’s place, but it wasn’t big enough, and he asked me to find a different place,” Jaiswal said in an interview with AFP in 2020. The interview took place in 2020.
After that, I made it a habit to sleep in a tent next to Azad Maidan, which is a sports ground in Mumbai, and to play cricket at the venue during the day.
“I sold pani puri at night, to help earn some money for food,” he remarked, alluding to a well-known street snack. “Pani puri” is an abbreviation for “pani puri.”
Before Jaiswal was recognized by coach Jwala Singh, who eventually became the boy’s legal guardian, he also did some cricket scoring and fetched balls in club games to help finance his future as a cricket player.
“I saw in Yashasvi a younger me and thought God is giving me another chance to play well in my second innings of life,” Singh, who played cricket at the state-level, told AFP in 2020. “I saw in Yashasvi a younger me.”
At the age of 17 years and 292 days, Jaiswal broke the record to become the youngest batsman to achieve a domestic one-day double century. He did this while competing for a spot on the Mumbai state squad in 2019.
His big break came in the 2019 Indian Premier League auction when he was purchased by Rajasthan for the price of $338,000. At the Under-19 World Cup in 2020, Jaiswal led India’s under-19 squad in scoring and was named player of the tournament. Jaiswal also won the award for best player overall.
He had to wait his turn before becoming a regular for Rajasthan, but he managed to score three fifties over the course of the 2021 and 2022 seasons. But he has joined forces with the England white-ball skipper, Jos Buttler, to create a formidable opening partnership this season.
His brilliant hundred against Mumbai Indians was in a losing cause, but the winning goal was all that kept him from notching a second IPL ton against KKR, as Rajasthan cruised to a nine-wicket win with almost seven overs to spare on Thursday. His innings against Mumbai Indians was in a losing cause, but the victory target was all that prevented him from notching a second IPL ton against KKR.
Jaiswal stated, “I always have it in my heart to go out and do well,” and “I always have it in my heart to do well.”
It’s not that everything went well, but I’m doing the best I can… I’m becoming better at staying in the game to the finish and winning for the team. Although Jaiswal has not yet made his debut for India, it seems just a matter of time until he receives a call-up to the national team.
He has racked up remarkable numbers across all playing formats, including a first-class cricket batting average of 80.21 after scoring nine hundreds in his first 15 games played at that level. “This year he has taken his game to a new level,” Rohit stated about the player.
“I asked him where all that power is coming from because I didn’t see so many sixes last year, and he was timing it so nicely,” I said, “because he was bowling so nicely.” He has been quoted as saying, “I have been spending a lot of time at the gym.”
Following their victory on Thursday, Rajasthan moved up to third place in the league.
If Jaiswal is able to maintain his outstanding form and lead the Royals to their first Indian Premier League championship since the competition’s inception in 2008, he would have a better chance of being selected to represent India in the next one-day World Cup that will be held on Indian soil later this year.