About Yashasvi Jaiswal:
Yashasvi Jaiswal is an Indian professional cricket player who was born in Suriyaon, Uttar Pradesh, on December 28, 2001. He represented Mumbai in Indian domestic cricket from 2018 to 2025 and plays franchise cricket for the Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League (IPL). He moved from Mumbai to Goa prior to the 2025–2026 season. Jaiswal is an opening batsman who uses his left hand.
In addition to his other accomplishments, he owns three world records:
• He is the youngest player in List A cricket to make a double century;
• He has hit the most sixes of any batsman in a single Test series.
• In a single calendar year, he has hit the most Test sixes.
Yashasvi Jaiswal is the fourth of six children born to housewife Kanchan Jaiswal and hardware store owner Bhupendra Jaiswal. The family resided in the Uttar Pradesh town of Suriyaon. Tejasvi Jaiswal, his older brother, represents Tripura in domestic cricket.
When Yashasvi Jaiswal was ten years old, he asked his father if he might travel to Mumbai to play cricket. He was brought to live with his uncle Santosh, but there was not room for another child in Santosh’s home. Rather, Jaiswal was housed and expected to work at a dairy shop. This agreement didn’t last long, either, as he was unable to satisfy the business owners due to his infrequent employment; he admittedly just played cricket, went home, and slept.
Later, Yashasvi Jaiswal’s uncle persuaded the proprietors of Muslim United Cricket Club to allow him to remain in their tent at Azad Maidan, a significant athletic venue. Jaiswal used public restrooms while residing in the tent for the ensuing years. He used borrowed equipment to play cricket, and he made money by assisting vendors in selling food and beverages when he wasn’t practicing or playing.
In December 2013, right before his 12th birthday, his life took a turn for the better. Coach Jwala Singh of the Mumbai Cricket Club saw his potential and took him under his wing. Singh gave Yashasvi Jaiswal food, made arrangements for him to live in a chawl (a leased room), and enrolled him in his cricket academy. Singh eventually took up the role of legal guardian for him.
Yashasvi Jaiswal’s performance and nutrition greatly improved after he started receiving sponsorship and adequate training. He started to stand out right away. The Mumbai School Sports Association (MSSA) presented him with honors in 2014 for Outstanding Performance, Best Innings, and Best All-Rounder.
However, he first gained significant attention during the 2015 Giles Shield cricket tournament, which included boys under 14 from Mumbai schools.
He got 13 wickets and amassed an incredible 319 runs in a multi-day match. He was inducted into the Limca Book of Records for this remarkable achievement. He went on an exposure tour to England later that year with the cricket academy of former Indian batsman Dilip Vengsarkar.
Yashasvi Jaiswal was chosen for both the Indian Under-19 national team and the Mumbai Under-16 team. He was selected Player of the Tournament for his role in leading India to victory in the 2018 Under-19 Asia Cup. The next year, he kept up his impressive play, scoring 173 off 220 balls in a young Test match against South Africa in February and placing fourth among run scorers in a youth tri-series against Bangladesh and England in July and August.
He was chosen to represent India at the South Africa-hosted ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2020 in December 2019. Despite India’s defeat in the final, he was voted Player of the Tournament and finished as the tournament’s top run scorer.
Yashasvi Jaiswal got called up to play senior domestic cricket at the age of sixteen. In the Vijay Hazare Trophy on September 28, 2019, he made his List A debut. He quickly found himself in excellent form, reaching three hundreds in five List A games, including a double century (203 off 154 balls) on October 16, 2019, against Jharkhand. He became the youngest player in List A history to score a double century at the age of 17 years and 292 days. In the 2019–20 Deodhar Trophy, he was also chosen for India B, where he was instrumental in the team’s series victory.
The Rajasthan Royals purchased him for ₹20.4 million (about $327,000) in the December 2019 IPL auction as a result of his performances. Due mostly to a lack of practice during the COVID-19 lockout, he played just three games and scored less than a run per ball in his first season with the Royals.
He played ten games in 2021 and scored his first IPL half-century against the Chennai Super Kings off just 19 balls, becoming him the second-fastest uncapped player to reach fifty, only surpassed by Ishan Kishan’s record of 17 balls. He became one of the youngest players ever retained when the Royals kept him for the 2022 campaign. That season, he scored two half-centuries.
Yashasvi Jaiswal’s true breakthrough came in 2023, when he finished as the fifth-highest run scorer of the season with 625 runs in 14 games. In the match against the Mumbai Indians, he scored his first IPL century (124 off 62 balls). He broke the previous 14-ball joint record held by Pat Cummins and KL Rahul on May 11 when he smashed a half-century in just 13 balls against the Kolkata Knight Riders.
He contributed an additional century and fifty in the 2024 IPL, which helped the Royals place third.
Yashasvi Jaiswal was first called up to India’s Test team for the West Indies trip in June 2023. He became the 17th Indian batsman to achieve a century on Test debut when he made his debut for his country in the first Test the following month, scoring 171 runs in India’s lone innings. Player of the Match went to him.
He made his T20I debut on the same tour, making a half-century against the West Indies in just his second match on August 12. He later participated in the 2023 Asian Games with India’s second-string squad, which went on to win a gold medal. He earned his first T20I century during a tournament match against Nepal.
England went on a five-Test series trip of India at the beginning of 2024.
Jaiswal was the series’ top run scorer overall. Yashasvi Jaiswal became the third-youngest Indian to reach a double century when he did so in the second Test.
He became just the third Indian to score double hundreds in back-to-back Tests when he scored another one in the following Test. With 12 sixes in the innings, Wasim Akram’s world record for the most sixes in a Test innings was tied. Yashasvi Jaiswal set another world record at the end of the series with 26 sixes.
During the first Test match between Australia and India on November 23 of that year, he smashed his 34th six, setting yet another world record for the most Test sixes in a calendar year. He was India’s top run scorer at the end of that series.