Success has not come easy to Yashasvi Jaiswal. At an age when children rely on their parents for pocket money, the young cricketer was sleeping in tents and selling pani-puri in Mumbai to survive – all for his dream of playing cricket which has paid rich dividends in the long run. The 22-year-old cricketer is now the proud owner of an apartment in the same city where, for three years, he slept in a tent and did odd jobs to earn a living.
Yashasvi Jaiswal has purchased an apartment in Mumbai for Rs 5.38 crore, according to documents accessed by real estate database platform Zapkey.
The son of a small shopkeeper in Uttar Pradesh, Jaiswal moved to Mumbai to pursue cricket when he was only 10-years-old. For a while, he slept at a dairy where he used to work, he told Indian Express in a 2020 interview.
“After playing cricket the entire day, I would get tired and go to sleep. One day, they threw out my luggage saying I do nothing, don’t help them and only sleep,” he explained.
For three years after that, Jaiswal slept in a tent at the Muslim United Club where his uncle was a manager. During the day, he would sell pani-puri at Azad Maidan to earn some money. At night, he would drift off to sleep, often hungry and jostling for space with the groundsmen with whom he shared the tent.
“I prayed that my teammates would not come there for pani-puri. Sometimes they did and I would feel bad serving them,” he said.
Jaiswal slept in the tent for three years, until his potential was spotted by Jwala Singh, who ran a cricket academy in Santacruz. The rest, as they say, is history.
Today, at 22, Jaiswal plays for the Indian cricket team. He is the third youngest cricketer in Test history to have two double centuries to his name. The left-handed opener is pegged to be torch-bearer of Indian batting for the next decade.
And as a mark of his success, Jaiswal is now the proud owner of an apartment in the city of dreams where he used to sleep in a tent. He registered the 1,110 square feet apartment in Bandra East on January 7 this year.
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