Yashasvi Jaiswal (born 28 December 2001) is an Indian cricketer, a left-handed opening batter who plays for India in all formats. His rise from living in a groundsman’s tent in Mumbai to the Indian Test team is one of cricket’s best-known stories. He scored 171 on his Test debut in 2023 and hit two double centuries in a single series against England in 2024, when he also equalled the record for most sixes in a Test innings.
Quick Facts
| Full name | Yashasvi Bhupendra Kumar Jaiswal |
| Born | 28 December 2001, Suriyawan, Bhadohi district, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Age | 24 |
| Role | Opening batter (left-handed) |
| International debut | Test July 2023, T20I August 2023 |
| Domestic team | Mumbai |
| IPL team | Rajasthan Royals (since 2020) |
| Coach | Jwala Singh |
| Known for | 171 on Test debut, 712 runs in a series against England |
Early Life
Jaiswal is the fourth of six children of a small hardware-shop owner in Suriyawan. At about ten he moved to Mumbai to play cricket. He was asked to leave a dairy where he had been sleeping and spent some three years in a tent with the groundsmen of the Muslim United Club at Azad Maidan, selling pani puri in the evenings to earn money. In 2013 the coach Jwala Singh noticed him, took him into his home and became his legal guardian.
Career
In 2019, aged 17, he scored 203 for Mumbai against Jharkhand and became the youngest player to make a double hundred in List A cricket. He was Player of the Tournament at the 2020 Under-19 World Cup with 400 runs. Rajasthan Royals bought him for ₹2.4 crore. In the 2023 IPL he scored 625 runs, including a century and a fifty off 13 balls, the fastest in the league’s history.
On debut against West Indies at Roseau in July 2023 he made 171. Against England in early 2024 he scored 209 at Visakhapatnam and an unbeaten 214 at Rajkot, where he hit 12 sixes, equalling the Test record. His 712 runs made him only the second Indian, after Sunil Gavaskar, to pass 700 in a series. He made 161 at Perth in November 2024 and scored further hundreds in England in 2025.
He scored a T20I hundred at the 2023 Asian Games, where India won gold, and was a member of the squad that won the 2024 T20 World Cup.
Personal Life
Jaiswal has bought a home for his family in Mumbai. He often speaks of his early hardships as the source of his hunger for runs.
Awards and Honours
Major Titles
Frequently Asked Questions
When and where was Yashasvi Jaiswal born?
Yashasvi Jaiswal was born on 28 December 2001 in Suriyawan, Bhadohi district, Uttar Pradesh, India and is 24 years old.
What is Yashasvi Jaiswal known for?
Known for: 171 on Test debut, 712 runs in a series against England.
Featured image: Yashasvi Jaiswal with Prime Minister Narendra Modi after India’s T20 World Cup win, New Delhi, 4 July 2024. Photo by Prime Minister’s Office, licensed under Government Open Data License – India, via Wikimedia Commons.
