Yashasvi Jaiswal IPL 2023 Runs: How Many Runs Has Rajasthan Royals’ Opener Scored This Season?

Rajasthan Royals opening batter Yashasvi Jaiswal has managed to extend a splendid Indian Premier League 2023 streak to another match. Opening the batting with Jos Buttler (27) against Chennai Super Kings in Jaipur tonight, Jaiswal completed a seventh T20 half-century at a brisk pace to provide a quickfire start to this team.

Jaiswal, who scored 77 (43) including eight fours and four sixes at a strike rate of 179.06, was the home team’s only batter to get going for a large part of the innings. The fact that he played such a knock on a surface which didn’t allow other key batters to prosper speaks highly of the nick he was in tonight.

Not taking time to get his eye in unlike previous seasons, Jaiswal hit three fours off the first four balls that he faced against Chennai pacer Akash Singh. In his former Indian U-19 teammate’s second over, Jaiswal hit three fours and a six to register a whirlwind start. In the penultimate over of the powerplay, the left-handed batter pulled a Tushar Deshpande delivery for a six over deep square leg.

The highlight of Jaiswal’s innings came in the seventh over when he nailed a switch hit off CSK all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja for another six. It was in the same over that the 21-year old player completed a 26-ball half-century.

In spite of the visiting bowlers successfully putting curbs around a free-flowing batter in the middle overs, Jaiswal still managed to hit the occasional boundary. However, it was in the 14th over of the innings when Deshpande sent both Rajasthan captain Sanju Samson (17) and Jaiswal back to the pavilion. The latter ended up skying a delivery to Ajinkya Rahane at backward point.

Yashasvi Jaiswal IPL 2023 Runs (updated)

Second-highest run-scorer in the ongoing 16th season of the IPL, Jaiswal has scored 575 runs across 13 innings at an average and strike rate of 47.91 and 166.18 respectively with the help of a century and four half-centuries.

There is lot to like abt Yashasvi Jaiswal. His Hitting ability is high quality… #RRvCSK

— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) April 27, 2023

Jaiswal, who has all the traits of an all-format batter, is rising up the ranks swiftly as far as the next generation of Indian batters are concerned. With a few of them in the middle of a below par IPL season, their form will only make Jaiswal’s task easier with respect to climbing up the ladder among the national team’s probables.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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