Australia’s former World Cup-winning captain Michael Clarke believes Team India have found their new “Virender Sehwag” in young batter Yashasvi Jaiswal. In the recently concluded England Test series, Jaiswal scored 411 runs, including two centuries and two fifties.
While speaking on the Beyond23 Cricket Podcast, Clarke called Jaiswal a superstar and said a batter like him could become a successful opener for the team if he continues playing the way he is now.
“The way he [Jaiswal] plays, with someone like him opening the batting, if all goes to plan and he has the career that we think he is going to have — and he is going to, because he is a superstar — it’s going to be a lot like Sehwag,” Clarke said.
Clarke also highlighted Jaiswal’s intent as a batter, saying: “He is that risky top order, aggressive, sets the intent for your team style of batsman. You have got to accept that he is gonna play some innings that you watch a go ‘Oh, what a superstar, what an amazing player’ like in the second innings [at Oval] but he is gonna nick the occasional ball, get a low score and hit one to backward point or play a pull shot that will go straight up.”
The former Aussie captain further claimed that Jaiswal will only get better with time and could become unstoppable.
“He will continue to get better, but the way he plays like Sehwag. When Sehwag was on, he was unstoppable, but sometimes he got out playing the big cover drive and nicked it for a duck,” he concluded.
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