Ignored For POTM Award, Yashasvi Jaiswal Backed To Win Bigger Prize By Ex-India Star | Cricket News

Former India cricketer Aakash Chopra has backed opening younger batter Yashasvi Jaiswal “to run away” with the ‘Player of the Series’ award within the ongoing five-match Test bilateral towards England. Despite scoring double centuries within the second and third Tests, a Player of the Match award has eluded him to this point within the sequence. However, with a few double centuries within the bag, Chopra has predicted Jaiswal to take the large prize on the finish of the sequence. India lead the sequence 2-1 with the final two Tests scheduled in Ranchi and Dharamsala, respectively.

“Yashasvi may not have won a single POTM thus far but he will walk away with the Player of the Series award in Dharamsala,” Chopra wrote on X (previously Twitter).

Yashasvi could not have received a single POTM to date…however he’ll stroll away with the Player of the Series award in Dharamsala. #IndvEng

— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) February 19, 2024

In the second innings of the third Test, Jaiswal performed an unbeaten knock of 214 runs which was laced by 14 fours and 12 sixes. 

The 22-year-old constructed an unbeaten partnership of 172 runs together with Sarfaraz Khan, who performed an unbeaten knock of 68* runs with the assistance of six boundaries and three sixes.

During his knock, Jaiswal equalled Wasim Akram’s document (12) of hitting essentially the most sixes in an innings in Test cricket. Akram had additionally hit 12 sixes towards Zimababwe in 1996.

However, it was Ravindra Jadeja who received the participant of the match award in Rajkot, having smashed a century within the first innings, earlier than taking a five-for within the second.

In the 2nd Test in Vizag, Jasprit Bumrah pipped Jaiswal to the value, regardless of the teenager taking part in a scintillating knock of 209 runs from 290 balls throughout India’s 1st innings.

Meanwhile, England’s Ollie Pope, on the again of his match-winning 196, had taken the honours within the sequence opener in Hyderabad.

The fourth Test begins Friday, February 23 in Ranchi, whereas the fifth and remaining Test shall be performed from March 7-11 on the picture-esque HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala.