Yashasvi - boy monk who willed himself into a batting phenomenon
Yashasvi Jaiswal celebrating his second successive double century (214*) of the series against England at Rajkot. Photo courtesy: BCCI To have left home at 10 and live alone in a megapolis like Mumbai for chasing the dream of playing for India must have been like going on a sea voyage on a hand-made raft without any navigation instrument. The young lad, Yashasvi Jaiswal, from Suriya village (Bhadohi district, UP) could have easily drifted into a ‘castaway’ the Mumbai city is filled with. To live first couple of years all by himself, except for the initial few months when he stayed with his uncle, every single night must have been achingly long, dark and dreadful, especially the ones he had to go without food for lack of money. Perhaps, it was Azad Maidan, the home of Mumbai cricket, where Jaiswal lived in the gardener’s dilapidated shack, that constantly fed his dream, if not his belly. Then to have written a script 12 years later that even an Oscar-winning scriptwri...
