MUMBAI: India’s Check opener Yashasvi Jaiswal has left the cricket fraternity surprised together with his choice to modify from home powerhouse Mumbai to Ranji Trophy minnows Goa. The 23-year-old will lead Goa within the 2025-26 season.
Jaiswal despatched an e mail to Mumbai Cricket Affiliation (MCA) on Wednesday requesting a no-objection certificates (NOC) for his switch from Mumbai to Goa beginning subsequent season.
“We now have accepted his request,” MCA secretary Abhay Hadap advised TOI.

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The explanation for this sudden choice is thought greatest to the participant, however it’s understood that he has had variations with some senior members of Mumbai Ranji crew.
In his communication to MCA, Jaiswal acknowledged: “I’ve had the privilege of representing Mumbai in home cricket and have immensely benefited from the alternatives supplied by the affiliation. Nevertheless, after cautious consideration of my profession aspirations and private circumstances, I made a decision to hunt a switch…”
“I guarantee you that this choice is made in good religion and with due respect to the affiliation that has supported my improvement. I’m prepared to adjust to all obligatory formalities as per the BCCI’s participant switch rules and can guarantee a easy transition. Thanks to your assist and steering all through my time with Mumbai. I sincerely recognize all of the alternatives given to me and hope to take care of a constructive relationship with the affiliation sooner or later,” Yashasvi Jaiswal wrote to MCA.
BCCI joint secretary Rohan Desai, former secretary of the Goa Cricket Affiliation (GCA), advised TOI, “It’s an enormous improvement for Goan cricket. Goa’s cricketers, particularly the kids, will get to be taught quite a bit from Jaiswal, who is part of India’s Check crew. It’s a blessing {that a} participant of his stature can be part of Goa’s dressing room. It’s a great choice by the GCA administration to incorporate Yashasvi within the squad. I’m wanting ahead to an thrilling season for Goa.”

Goa, who performed within the Plate division of the Ranji Trophy 2024-25 season and received the ultimate, have been promoted to the Elite division for the approaching season.
Jaiswal started his first-class profession for Mumbai on the Wankhede Stadium in Jan 2019 in opposition to Chhattisgarh within the Ranji Trophy. He has scored 863 runs at a median of 53.93 with 4 centuries and two fifties in 10 First-Class matches for Mumbai. In June 2022, he scored consecutive centuries (100 & 181) in opposition to Uttar Pradesh within the Ranji Trophy.
His performances for Mumbai led to his nationwide choice. In October 2019, at age 17, he turned the youngest cricketer to attain a Record A double century, making 203 off 154 balls in opposition to Jharkhand within the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
In 25 Record A video games for Mumbai, he has scored 1296 runs at a median of 58.90. He has additionally represented Mumbai in 28 T20s, scoring 648 runs at a strike-rate of 136.42.
A number of Mumbai gamers, together with Arjun Tendulkar, Siddhesh Lad, Eknath Kerkar and Kshemal Waingankar have beforehand represented Goa. Different outstanding Mumbai gamers who left the affiliation to play for different sides embody Sarfaraz Khan (performed for UP earlier than coming again), Munaf Patel (to Maharashtra), Sairaj Bahutule (to Maharashtra), Amol Muzumdar (to Assam) and Wasim Jaffer (to Vidarbha).
Following BCCI’s directive for gamers to take part in home cricket, Jaiswal performed for Mumbai within the 2024- 25 Ranji Trophy, scoring 4 & 26 of their loss to Jammu & Kashmir in January. Although chosen as a non-travelling substitute within the crew for the Champions Trophy, he was included in Mumbai’s Ranji squad for his or her semifinal in opposition to Vidarbha in Nagpur on Feb 17. Nevertheless, an ankle damage prevented his participation.
Regardless of his origins in Bhadohi, Uttar Pradesh, Jaiswal shares a robust reference to Mumbai. Throughout his early days, he resided within the Muslim United SC tent at Azad Maidan earlier than coach Jwala Singh supplied him with an lodging.
At present, Jaiswal goes by way of a lean run in IPL 2025 with Rajasthan Royals, managing solely 34 runs in three matches to this point. Nevertheless, he carried out admirably within the 2024-25 Border Gavaskar Trophy in Australia, logging 391 runs in 5 Checks at a median of 43.44, together with one century and two half-centuries.