Openers for India in T20 World Cup 2024
On Monday playing against Mumbai Indians the young opener of the blue team, Yashasvi Jaiswal knocked a brilliant century against MI.
It might make the selection committee in a positive trouble in favour of picking him as the first-choice opener beside Rohit Sharma, for the upcoming T20 World Cup 2024.
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“The team needs to win, that’s all. I don’t want anything else,” Yashasvi Jaiswal told Rohit Sharma after RR beat MI by 9 wickets in the post match conversations on the ground.
JaisBall mentality. 👊😁 pic.twitter.com/sH33QImF75
— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) April 23, 2024
Jaiswal was phenomenal while chasing the defendable target of 180 against the seasoned bowlers of the Mumbai Indians. He made the first century of the season by hitting 104* not out and took RR to the winning line.
The young batter has struggled a lot in this season and worked on his flaws to get back on track ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024. He has the capability to set the stage on fire if he gets settled in few first overs.
Now IPL is half way but still we can expect some more like this playing for Rajasthan Royals.
As he was not in form since the start of this season, we have often seen that left handers use cross bat shots a little more in their play, which costs them loss.
But In the last game Jaiswal was prepared for this and minimized the use of the cross bat shots that gave him and aggressive play in the game.
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He played safe and did not go for any unnecessary shots in the power play. Jaiswal stayed on the crease and made the target easy to chase
Jaiswal was rewarded for his patience, and other from a lost opportunity to Nehal Wandhera when he reached fifty, he had a faultless innings.
The batter was rewarded for his patience when he hit 104* off just 60 balls, allowing RR to seal their season double against MI.
Jaiswal’s knock made the former skipper happy in the post match meet up which told the whole story that he knows that If Jaiswal is in form and has taken the pace ahead of the T20 World Cup, this looks like a great positive sign for the Indian Team.
Openers for India in T20 World Cup 2024:
The top order has a limited number of berths available for the T20 World Cup 2024. The Ajit Agarkar-led selection panel is set to name its squad by the end of April.
Jaiswal’s century may serve as a reminder to the selectors that he is too talented a batter to be overlooked despite a couple of poor performances in the IPL.
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Yashasvi must keep up his performance to sustain pressure on other top-order candidates, particularly KL Rahul and Shubman Gill.
Jaiswal’s century would land the selectors in positive trouble. As the batter has taken a selfless approach when opening for India during the last season. Jaiswal has 502 runs at an average of 33.47 and a strike rate of 162 in T20Is. S
ome may say that if given the opportunity at the World Cup, he is just the spark that India requires at the top of the order.
