MUMBAI, April 24 -- After the high of the Test series against England, Yashasvi Jaiswal was expected to fire in the IPL as well. Especially after his breakout season last year had seen him hammer 625 runs at an average of 48.08 (strike rate 163.61 runs). But what followed came as a surprise. Instead of dominating, he seemed lost. A series of low scores followed and everyone was wondering what had suddenly gone wrong.
Coming into Monday's game against Mumbai Indians, his eighth match of the season he had scored a total of 129 runs at an average of 17.28. He had failed to make it out of the Powerplay six times out of seven.
The experts were saying it was just a matter of time, but with the T20 World Cup, he needed to find form and he needed...