‘Who listens to anyone when one is in his 20s’: Sunil Gavaskar on Yashasvi Jaiswal

During the December 2023 Test tour of South Africa, as stated by former India captain Sunil Gavaskar, he “mildly reprimanded” young batter Yashasvi Jaiswal. Gavaskar recalled talking to Jaiswal and telling him that he had disciplined the inexperienced opener for wasting his wicket during the second Test match in Trinidad against the West Indies. Jaiswal was destined to achieve triple figures in the second game, having scored a century in his debut. He did, however, chase a wide delivery and nicked it for 57 at second slip.

With an incredible 712 runs in five matches, Jaiswal was the top scorer in the just finished Test series against England. In a Test series against England, this was the greatest aggregate scored by an Indian batter.

Gavaskar expressed his satisfaction with Jaiswal’s impressive run-scoring performance against England and urged the young player to heed his counsel.

“It felt very nice to see Yashasvi getting all those runs and the manner in which he dominated the attack. I had mildly reprimanded him in the hotel elevator on Day 1 of the first Test in South Africa for throwing away his wicket in Trinidad (previous Test) after a good 50 plus score and told him never to do the bowlers any favour. Thankfully, he listened to me and got two big doubles in this series. He got three other half centuries and forgot what I had told him there. But hey, who listens to anyone when one is in his 20s. I didn’t either. Hopefully, he will go on to bigger things and never forgets that he is what he is because of Indian cricket,” Gavaskar told Hindustan Times in an interview.

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Gavaskar remembered that luck had a big influence in his career, having amassed over 700 runs in his first Test series in 1971.

“When a player gets runs in a series then he is very good or very lucky. In my case it was the latter as no less a cricketer than Garry Sobers gave me lives in my first half-century and then my first Test century,” he added.

“He got three other half centuries and forgot what I had told him there. But hey, who listens to anyone when one is in his 20s. I didn’t either. Hopefully, he will go on to bigger things and never forgets that he is what he is because of Indian cricket,” he said.

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