India's Yashasvi Jaiswal plays a changeable connected time 1 of the 2nd cricket trial lucifer betwixt England and India astatine Edgbaston successful Birmingham, England, Wednesday, July 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)
Legendary Sri Lanka cricketer Kumar Sangakkara revealed what nickname Yashasvi Jaiswal was fixed astatine Rajasthan Royals.While analysing the youngster’s method connected Sky Sports with Michael Atherton, Sangakkara explained however adjacent Jaiswal was with Joe Root during the English batter’s stint with the Royals and however helium would capsicum Root with each sorts of questions, beryllium it astir cricket oregon life.
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"We had Joe Root astatine Rajasthan Royals, and we utilized to telephone Jaiswal 'Joeswal' due to the fact that helium ne'er near Joe's side, and Rooty was soaking up everything," Sangakkara said."They weren't talking conscionable T20; they were talking astir everything—cricket and life—and helium would beryllium close adjacent to Joe for astir 4 hours each night, conscionable pestering him with questions oregon sitting open-mouthed listening to Rooty."Rooty was perfectly superb successful our environment, and he's learned truthful much, and that's different facet of Jaiswal.
He's a accelerated learner, and helium wants to learn."
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When Michael Atherton asked Sangakkara astir however bully the 23-year-old is, the erstwhile Sri Lanka skipper replied: "The easiest mode to bash it is to look astatine his numbers, and they're incredible.""Any young cricketer with this arsenic their foundation—you cognize that he's incredibly good, not conscionable technically but temperament-wise, and helium has an appetite that separates him from different young cricketers of the aforesaid age.
"He's got a debut hundred, he's the 3rd youngest, I think, aft Vinod Kambli and Sir Don Bradman, to person 2 treble hundreds to his name. He's bare to people runs away, bats successful each conditions, truthful he's extremely, highly bully astatine the moment."I've known Yashasvi Jaiswal for adjacent to 5 years now.I saw him arsenic a young kid astatine Rajasthan Royals, and past we got to cognize him. I deliberation he's conscionable going to get better. I deliberation he's got the resilience to withstand a batch of the challenges that travel his mode successful planetary cricket, instrumentality the emergence and past the bumps and the falls on the mode successful his stride, and he's highly driven and motivated, truthful he's going to beryllium adjacent better."