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Beach Slum to Cricketing Heights: The Marvellous Tale of Yashasvi Jaiswal-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis James Wallace in The Guardian, 11 March 2024, where the title runs The opener has gone from living in a tent to breaking records and plays for an Indian Test side with frightening depth. PHOTO wd not dowlnload You may, by now, have heard the origin story of Yashasvi Jaiswal, the 22-year-old Indian opener who has just crunched 712 runs in a series, the most inflicted on an England side by any Indian batter in Test history. No matter – it’s a tale that bears repeating. Jaiswal was just a slight and shy 10-year-old boy when he left his home district of Bhadohi, eastern Uttar Pradesh, with his father, and headed 1,000 miles south across India’s vast expanse to the bright lights of Mumbai in pursuit of a seemingly impossible dream – to make it as ...