Ryan ten Doeschate, who previously served as an assistant coach for India, recently expressed a firm view regarding young batter Yashasvi Jaiswal's repeated exclusions from India's white-ball squads.
Although Jaiswal has cemented his position as a regular in the Test side, he has not yet nailed down a consistent spot in the limited-overs teams.
In six ODIs, the left-hander has amassed 285 runs, which includes two centuries, at an outstanding average of 71.25. Even with such figures, the Rajasthan Royals opener is still on the outside looking in when it comes to India's white-ball plans. As the 2027 ODI World Cup draws closer, his prospects of forcing his way into the first-choice ODI XI look increasingly remote.
Ten Doeschate revealed how difficult it was for him to see the talented Jaiswal being left out of the Indian ODI setup.
"He is so hungry to do well. You know, even when he gets runs but doesn't get a big one, the genuine disappointment in leaving runs out there, you can see it really hurts him. He is also just touching on the ODI point; he is desperate to play ODI cricket as well. He doesn't get into the team, which is—it's crazy," said Doeschate on the TalkSport Cricket Podcast.
"It's ridiculous. There are some players we were chatting about yesterday who aren't in the team. But also, just to be clear, you know, I wasn't the batting coach, so I didn't have that direct access to players in terms of working that closely with them. It was so I'd chip in here and there and maybe complement what the batting coach and the head coach were saying. But yeah, certainly very, very hungry, works very, very hard. One of those strange situations where he's actually not a great netter," he added.
Ten Doeschate elaborated on his point about Jaiswal’s struggles in the net by recalling an incident from the 2024-25 India's Test tour of Australia. He revealed that Mitchell Starc was breathing fire and bowling bouncers at Indian batters, and how Jaiswal took Starc on despite struggling in the nets beforehand.
"I'll never forget it happened in Australia, that whole build-up in Perth. And within the first three overs of the first Test match, Starc had bowled a 150k bouncer, and he just pulled him in front of the square. He just didn't look like he could play the short ball in the nets," he said.
Jaiswal will next be seen in action for India in the upcoming two-Test series against New Zealand. He is in New Zealand with the India A squad for the ongoing four-day games.
