Yashasvi Bhupendra Kumar Jaiswal was born on 28 December 2001 in Suriyawan, Bhadohi, Uttar Pradesh, is an Indian cricketer who plays for Mumbai in domestic cricket and Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Jaiswal is the youngest cricketer in the world who scored a double century in List A. He was the leading run-scorer in under-19 for India and a player of the tournament at the 2020 Under-19 World Cup in South Africa.

At the age of ten, Jaiswal moved to Dadar, Mumbai, to receive cricket training at the Azad Maidan. Since Dadar was far from the Maidan, he relocated to the Kalbadevi neighborhood, where he was given lodging in a dairy shop in exchange for low-wage work. He was eventually fired by the shopkeeper because he was unable to help much at the shop in between his cricket practices. Jaiswal, who didn’t have a place of his own, slept in a tent with the groundsmen at the Maidan, where he often slept hungry and sold panipuri to make ends meet.

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After living in a tent for three years, his cricket talent was spotted by Jwala Singh in December 2013, who ran a cricket academy in Santacruz. Singh took Jaiswal and gave him a place to stay before becoming his legal guardian.

Jaiswal rose to fame in 2015 after scoring 319 not out and taking 13/99 in a Giles Shield match, setting an all-round record in school cricket that was recognized by the Limca Book of Records. He was then chosen for the Mumbai under-16 squad, followed by the India under-19 squad.

He was named in India’s squad for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in December 2019. He completed the tournament as the leading scorer, with a century against Pakistan in the semi-finals.

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The Rajasthan Royals procured him for the 2020 Indian Premier League. On October 2, 2021, he scored his first half-century against the Chennai Super Kings.