Over the years, the Indian Premier League (IPL) has produced a lot of fresh talent for the country, but it is also regarded to be a difficult league for rookie players to break into.

A player's spot in the tournament can be jeopardized by a single poor performance, regardless of how he fared earlier in the season or what reputation he brings into the tournament. In IPL 2022, Yashasvi Jaiswal was in a similar predicament.

In the domestic one-day scene, Jaiswal made history by becoming the youngest player to strike a double century in the Vijay Hazare Trophy in the 2019/20 season, and he hammered bowlers all over the place in the 2019 U-19 World Cup.

However, because of the lockdown, he took a long vacation from all kinds of cricket, following which he struggled to make an impact for the Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2021.

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This pattern resumed in the 2022 season when he was benched after three games. After being reintroduced to the team after seven games on the bench, he had a much more consistent run.

“When I played in the IPL. I played three games, then I got dropped for seven games and then I came back again and started playing,” Jaiswal told ESPNCricinfo. 

Jaiswal and Jos Buttler had a formidable opening partnership, with Buttler scoring the second-highest total of runs in a single IPL season.

"It was amazing batting with him," Jaiswal says. "We talk a lot - maybe not in the middle but outside the ground. He just tells me simple and clear things that I need to do. If he says something, I trust him and follow it, and it helps me. I was very happy batting with him. He just says, 'Play good cricketing shots' and I try to follow it."

Jaiswal has only appeared in two Ranji Trophy matches for Mumbai so far. In the second of those matches, he hit his first First-Class century as Mumbai defeated Uttarakhand by a record 725 runs.

"I think this Ranji Trophy match (against Uttarakhand) was very important for me. I got a chance to play after three games. So, for me, it's important, these performances.”