Former South African skipper AB de Villiers showered praise on Yashasvi Jaiswal after India registered a 2-0 series win against the West Indies. India won the second Test at Delhi by seven wickets to complete a clean sweep against the visitors.
Jaiswal, who was dismissed after getting a start in Ahmedabad, scored a magnum opus knock of 175 runs in the first innings at Delhi and played a key role in helping the hosts post 518 runs on the board. The left-hander top-scored in the series with 219 runs at an average of 73.
AB backed Jaiswal to break big records in International cricket if the southpaw keeps improving his game.
AB de Villiers said on his YouTube Channel, “He has been compared to the likes of Bradman, which is amazing. He’s still very very young. So it’s quite scary what the future holds for this guy. If he can stay fit and keep learning and making his game stronger and better as he moves forward, the sky is the limit. He can break big records.”
“He has the ability to read the situation of the game and fine tune the pace of play according to what he is confronted with. That’s usually the sign of a great player. He has this amazing ability to adapt between the pace of play. He has got all the strokes in the world and he knows that. But he’s not arrogant about it. He stays humble and keeps doing what he does best and that is to score big hundreds.”
On the other hand, Kuldeep Yadav picked 12 wickets in the series, including eight in the second Test at Delhi. The former RCB batter added that Yadav should be India’s first-choice spinner in the playing XI.
“He (Kuldeep Yadav) has not got 60+ wickets at a strike rate of 36. So he’s been absolutely phenomenal. And I think he needs to become the No.1 picked spinner in that team because he’s a very aggressive bowler, along with the finger spinners to keep the economy rate in control,” said AB de Villiers (via the aforementioned source).
Kuldeep is part of the ODI squad for the upcoming series against Australia.
