From Street Vendor to Scoring Test Double Century Against England

Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen called Jaiswal “a superstar” on commentary.”You beauty, your bat has become a magic wand,” India opener Shikhar Dhawan wrote on social media platform X.”Rewriting cricket history, one milestone at a time!” he added.Commentator Aakash Chopra said Friday that Jaiswal’s stats on converting fifties into hundreds had for the time being put him “even above Sir Don Bradman”.Jaiswal struck his 11th first-class ton over 21 matches to single-handedly drive the innings for India, where the next best knock was 34.He had always harboured ambitions to play for India and moved to India’s cricketing hub Mumbai to chase his dream at just 11 years old, and without his parents.”I used to sleep in a dairy and then stayed at my uncle’s place but it wasn’t big enough and he asked me to find a different place,” Jaiswal told AFP in an interview in 2020.



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