Tejasvi Jaiswal, elder brother of star India batter Yashasvi Jaiswal, was within the information lately, having scored his maiden First-Class half-century within the 4th spherical of the continuing Ranji Trophy season. A southpaw, identical to his brother, Tejasvi scored 82 runs with the bat in his solely innings and picked a wicket within the Ranji recreation for Tripura towards Baroda at Agartala. While Yashasvi is having fun with life as an all-format India cricketer, having launched into his first Test tour of Australia, Tejasvi as soon as needed to stop cricket in order that his brother might obtain his goals.
In a current interview, Tejasvi revealed that each him and Yashasvi had moved to Mumbai to pursue their goals, however just one might afford to pursue the game.
“I also wanted to play cricket, but the financial situation of our family was not good. Yashasvi was doing well… So by the end of 2013, I quit Mumbai and cricket and moved to Delhi, where a relative runs a shop,” Tejasvi advised The Indian Express.
Tejasvi additionally recalled being accused of age fraud, and the accusations made his choice to stop cricket at the moment a lot simpler as he did not need to jeopardise Yashasvi’s probabilities.
“I played one game in the Harris Shield and picked up seven wickets. Then people started saying that I had an age-verification issue. I was benched for a year and a half. Yashasvi was doing extremely well and I didn’t want his prospects to be affected because of me. Anyway, Mumbai was too expensive for both of us. It was getting difficult for both of us to have two meals a day. At that point Jwala sir, Yashasvi’s coach, wasn’t in the picture yet,” he added.
Tejasvi, now 27, had left Mumbai on the age of 17 to work as a salesman. With the assistance of his earnings, Tejasvi additionally acquired his two sisters married, and would additionally ship pocket cash to Jaiswal in Mumbai.
“By 2021, my sisters got married and Yashasvi got the IPL contract. Life eased for us after that,” Tejasvi insisted.
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