In a video posted on social media by Star Sports Tamil, some of the top Australian cricketers, including Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon, were asked to name one batsman who they think is a future super star coming from India.
Apart from Jaiswal, the only other batsman that found mention was Shubman Gill.
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Among the Australian cricketers who were asked this question, only Cameron Green and Travis Head voted for Gill, while Marnus Labuschagne named both Jaiswal and Gill.
“Some of his (Gill’s) innings I have seen,” says Head. “He makes bowling look slow. Plays off the front and back foot well, plays spin well. Shubman is gonna be an absolute freak.”
Jaiswal has so far played 9 Tests and notched up 1028 runs at a staggering average of 68.53, which also includes two double hundreds. In 23 T20Is, he has scored 723 runs at an average of 36.15 and strike rate of 164.32, including a century and five fifties. He is yet to make his ODI debut.
Gill, on the other hand, has already led India in ODIs as stand-in captain and has played 25 Tests, 47 ODIs and 21 T20Is.
In Tests, Gill has scored 1492 runs at an average of 35.52, including four centuries. He has 2328 ODI runs under his belt, including a double-century. His tally of runs in T20Is stands at 578 at an average of 30.42 and strike rate of 139.28, including a century and three fifties.
India, who currently lead the WTC table ahead of second-placed Australia, will begin a run of 10 Tests over the next four months, beginning with a two-match series at home against Bangladesh.
India will then welcome New Zealand for a three-Test series before flying to Australia to defend the Border Gavaskar Trophy, which for the first time will be contested over five Tests.
The WTC final is scheduled for a June 11 start at the Lord’s Cricket Ground in London.
