Indian veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin gave a straightforward reply about whether young batter Yashasvi Jaiswal will perform in Australia, later this year as he scored runs in the home series against England.
Ashwin was present on the Podcast ‘Club Prairie Fire’, former England captain Michael Vaughan asked him whether Jaiswal who has had a brilliant eighteen months, will fare in Australia.
"This is one part of the narrative that I genuinely laugh at. In India especially, you have lots of experts saying about someone who has sort of burst onto the scene. Hey, but hang on, let’s wait and see how he performs in Australia, in South Africa, in England”, Ashwin replied.
Ashwin further stated the beauty of international cricket, is that when you fail you learn something new. However, few ‘experts’ look forward to you failing in overseas condtions.
“I find it ridiculously funny because unless and until you want somebody to fail, you wouldn’t say something like that. You’re looking forward to somebody failing because that’s the beauty of international cricket."
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Left-handed batter Jaiswal was the highest run-scorer in the five-match Test series against England. In nine innings, he scored 712 runs at an average of 89.0. Jaiswal made his debut in the Test team last year against West Indies. Playing for Mumbai in First-Class Cricket he has made 2873 with an average of 75.60. His First-Class performance made the selectors select him for the test team.
Later this year, India will tour Australia for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. This time the series will have five matches for the first time since 1991-92.
Yashasvi has the tools to be successful: Ashwin
Veteran off-spinner added that young batters like Jaiswal are going to fail on some occasions and this experience in Australia is going to be challenging for him. Ashwin further elaborated that somebody like Jaiswal is a natural ball striker and he can get runs in Australia and if he gets success, he will be double the player he is right now.
“Somebody like Yashasvi is a natural-gifted ball-striker. He is somebody who, whatever he has touched, has turned into gold. But I am sure, down the line, he will get the opportunity to fail and also see what it takes to succeed”.
“That’s the wonderful nature of our great game. I think in Australia, or wherever it is, Yashasvi has the tools to be successful. But he will also go through the journey of learning something valuable. He will even have failures and he will learn the valuable lessons. I think he is going to be double the player than what he is right now”.
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Indian team is set to lock horns with Australia, later this year. Rohit Sharma and the company will play the first Test match on the bouncy Perth pitch starting on November 22. The second test will be a day-night Test in Adelaide, the third will be hosted by The Gabba, the fourth Test will be the boxing day hosted at the iconic MCG. The fifth and final Test of the series will be at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
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