The 22-year-old left-hand batter made his Test debut against the West Indies in July 2023 and joined the select band of cricketers who have scored a century on debut. It just wasn’t an ordinary century but one that went well above the 150 mark to finish at 171. In the history of Test cricket, only ten batters have scored more runs in their debut Tests and the two Indians among that list are Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma.
Knowing that the best place to get the right cricketing impetus at a young age of just twelve years, Yashasvi moved from his village residence of Bhadohi in Uttar Pradesh to Mumbai. Life was tough; there were days when he had to go to sleep hungry but the determination in the young lad decided to overcome it all. He earned a few bucks at times through some part-time business but it was never enough to give a growing boy the nutritious diet required to gain the strength necessary to blossom into a hard-hitting batter.
Yashasvi was fortunate that coach Jwala Singh assessed the potential of the then teenager and took him under his tutelage. Thereafter, there was no looking back for Yashasvi Jaiswal. Yet to achieve his age of majority, Yashasvi scored two hundreds, one double hundred and an unbeaten half-century in the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
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