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Indian cricket commentator and journalist Harsha Bhogle feels that the star Rajasthan Royals (RR) batter Yashasvi Jaiswal is one of the top contenders to become the leading run-scorers in IPL 2024. The 22-year-old is having a tremendous form in recent times where he finished as the leading run scorer in the recently ended Test series against and was crowned ICC Player of the month for February. He will now take on the field on 24th March when RR will take on Lucknow Supergiants in their opening match of IPL 2024 at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur.
In a Rajasthan Royals preview for IPL 2024 on his Voice of Cricket show at Cricbuzz, Bhogle applauded Jaiswal for his performance in the Test series against England and put him first in the of the contenders to win the Orange Cap in IPL 2024. The renowned cricketer commentator also stated that Jaiswal is in the ‘form of his life’.
“I saw Yashasvi Jaiswal very closely during the Test matches (against England) and at times, I thought he was playing T20 Cricket. He hit (James) Anderson for three sixes in a row, he hit (Shoaib) Bashir for three sixes in a row. Last year, he got 625 runs, striking at what 160 plus. He is in the form of his life, and I am quite game to nominate him an an early choice for the leading run getter in this year’s tournament. He is so full of confidence and at the other end, he’s got a drizzled veteran of the white-ball game,” Bhogle said on Cricbuzz.
Notably, Yashasvi Jaiswal shown tremendous form in IPL 2023 where he finished in the list of leading run scorers of the tournament by amassing 625 runs from 14 matches at an average of 48.07 and a strike rate of 163.61 along with a hundred and five half-centuries. His impressive performance in the IPL earned him maiden India call for the Test series against West Indies in July 2023. Jaiswal made his mark for India by smashing hundred on his Test debut against the Windies.
Jaiswal later went on to make his T20I debut for India against West Indies in August 2023 also went on to score a hundred during the 2023 Asian Games match against Nepal. The left-hander recently had record-breaking outing in the Test series against England where won Player of the series for amassing 712 run from five matches with three half-centuries and tow hundreds including his maiden double ton in the second Test at Vizag.
