'I know how important every innings is': Jaiswal on his hunger for big scores

Yashasvi Jaiswal's rise from the crowded bylanes of Mumbai is already part of folklore. He was 13 when he moved from his Uttar Pradesh hometown to the spiritual home of Indian cricket and faced a daily battle: with self as well as with other prodigies like him to go up the ranks. The insatiable appetite for runs perhaps stems from those early struggles. For only seven Tests into his career, Jaiswal is already part of an exclusive list of cricketers to convert each of his first three Test centuries into 150+ scores. The third of those, an unbeaten 214* in Rajkot against England, set up India's