Biography Of Yashaswi Jaiswal – Free PDF Download

EARLY LIFE

• Jaiswal was born on 28 December 2001 in Suriyawan, Bhadohi, Uttar Pradesh, as the fourth of six children, to Bhupendra Jaiswal, owner of a small hardware store, and Kanchan Jaiswal, a housewife.
• At the age of ten, he moved to Dadar, Mumbai, in order to receive cricket training at Azad Maidan.
• As Dadar was far away from the Maidan, he relocated to Kalbadevi neighbourhood where he was given accommodation in a dairy shop in return for low-grade work.

STRUGGLE

• He was eventually ejected by the shopkeeper as he was unable to provide much help at the shop in between his cricket training.
• Having no place of his own, Jaiswal stayed in a tent with the groundsmen at the Maidan, where he often slept hungry and sold panipuri to make ends meet.
• After living in tents for three years, Jaiswal’s cricketing talent was spotted in December 2013 by Jwala Singh, who ran a cricket academy in Santacruz.

CRICKET

• Jaiswal first came to the limelight in 2015 when he scored 319 not out and took 13/99 in a Giles Shield match, an all-round record in school cricket, which was recognized by Limca Book of Records.
• He was then selected in Mumbai under-16 squad followed by India under-19s. Jaiswal was the highest run-scorer (318 runs) and player of the tournament at the 2018 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup which India won.
• In 2019, he struck 173 off 220 balls in a Youth Test match against South Africa under-19s. Later that year, he scored 294 runs in 7 matches.

 CRICKET

• Jaiswal made his first-class debut for Mumbai in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy on 7 January 2019.He made his List A debut on 28 September 2019, for Mumbai in the 2019–20 Vijay Hazare Trophy.
• On 16 October 2019, he scored 203 runs off 154 balls in a Vijay Hazare Trophy match against Jharkhand and became the youngest double centurion in the history of List A cricket at 17 years, 292 days.
• He was one of the top five run-scorers at the 2019–20 Vijay Hazare Trophy, with 564 runs in 6 matches at an average of 112.80.He was named in the India B squad for the 2019–20 Deodhar Trophy.

 CRICKET

• In December 2019, he was named in India’s squad for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. In the 2020 IPL auction, he was bought by the Rajasthan Royals ahead of the 2020 Indian Premier League.
• In February 2020, he became the leading scorer in the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup and scored a century against Pakistan in the semi-final.

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