New Delhi: In an important step, India’s test opener Yashsvi Jaiswal has decided to participate with Mumbai and make changes in Goa for the upcoming domestic season. The 23-year-old will play the captaincy role for Goa in the 2025-26 season. On Tuesday, Jaiswal formally requested the No Usection Certificate (NOC) Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) to make switch, which MCA Later given.
Jaiswal follows the growing trend of Mumbai cricketers going to Goa in the recent years.
After the direction of the BCCI, the players need to participate in domestic cricket for their respective state teams, Jaiswal painted in Mumbai’s Ranji Trophy campaign during the 2024-25 season. However, he did a quiet outing, which was scoring only 4 and 26 for the loss of five wickets to Jammu and Kashmir at BKC, Mumbai MCA Ground.
Initially, India’s Champions was out of the Trophy squad, but was included as a non-journey reserve, Jayaswal was later dragged into a Mumbai squad for his semi-finals against Vidarbha in Nagpur on 17 February. However, he withdrew from the match a day earlier due to an ankle injury.
Despite being from Bhadohi village in Uttar Pradesh, Jaiswal shared a deep emotional relationship with Mumbai, where he has spent his early years in cricket. As a young man, he lived in a tent in the Muslim United SC in Azad Maidan and even sold to Panipuris in the evening, who meets his guru, before Jwala Singh, took him under his wing in Santa Cruise. His visit took a significant turn in 2015 when former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar along with his academy team gave him the UK Exposure Tour facility.
Jaiswal first attracted attention with a big score for the Rizvi Springfield School at Harris Shield, followed by an impressive performance for Mumbai’s Under -16, Under -19 and Under -23 teams, making its way to the senior party.
Currently, Jaiswal is struggling for form IPL 2025 Representing Rajasthan Royals, managing just 34 runs and a strike rate of 106.25 in three matches on an average of 11.33. However, his credibility remains strong, as he was one of India’s standout artists in the 2024–25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, who scored 391 runs in average five trials of 43.44, including a century and two half-centuries.
Jaiswal started his first grade for Mumbai in January 2019 at the Wankhede Stadium against Chhattisgarh. Since then, he has scored 3,712 first -class runs, including 12 centuries and 12 half -centuries, in 36 matches, most of them come to Mumbai. His performance in domestic cricket turned him into a national dispute.
A decisive moment of his career came in October 2019, when at just 17 years old, he became the youngest player who was scoring a dual century in a cricket, scoring 203 off 154 balls against Jharkhand in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. In June 2022, he further strengthened his reputation with the twin centuries (100 and 181) against Uttar Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy.
Now, as Jaiswal is included in a new chapter with Goa, everyone’s eyes will be on how he adopts his new role as a captain and can he re -discover his best look.
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