Sometimes an advice by a senior players, goes a long way in shaping the career of a youngster. Yashasvi Jaiswal has become an inseparable member of the Indian Test side, and it was an advice by Rohit Sharma that changed it all for him. And in his very first match vs the West Indies, he went on to score 171.
Rohit Sharma’s words of wisdom to Yashasvi Jaiswal
During one of the training sessions Before the match, Jaiswal remembered, that he was trying to hit Ravindra Jadeja out of the attack, but hitting him for sixes. And that is when Rohit asked him to play along the carpet. “I remember Jaddu bhai was bowling and I stepped out and hit a six outside the stadium. Rohit bhai told me, ‘Jaisu khel neeche se, aaramse khel. Aise marega kya?’ Then I started playing normally.
“My mindset was to try to dominate and take chances according to the field set. If I can convert, I will try, and this is the chat we had. I tried to play my positive shots, and it was successful. I have the same mindset when I play for Mumbai as well,” he said on sports journalist Vimal Kumar’s YouTube Channel.
Knew 15 days in advance about Test debut
Not just that, Jaiswal also revealed that Rohit adviced him to play freely and go for his shots. In fact, then skipper also told the youngster 15 days back, that he would be making his debut. “Rohit was giving me a lot of confidence. He told me to play freely, play my shots, and get to a big score if I got set. He told me a lot of things. The moment I landed in the West Indies, and we were going to Dominica for our game, he told me that time itself that I was going to play.
“Almost 15 days before, he told me that I would not tell you a day before you would be playing. So he had told me 15 days before. He told me that we would prepare together and prepare well.”
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