Yashasvi Jaiswal buys dream home in Mumbai

February 23, 2024 | Indextapadmin

Cricketer Yashasvi Jaiswal, who lived in a tent as a child, buys Rs 5.4 crore flat in Mumbai's Bandra, the same city where Jaiswal used to sleep in a tent and sell pani-puri to make a living.

Yashasvi Jaiswal has had a difficult road to success. At a time when most children rely on their parents for pocket money, the young cricketer was sleeping in tents and selling pani-puri in Mumbai to make ends meet - all in pursuit of his dream of playing cricket, which has paid off handsomely in the end. The 22-year-old cricketer now owns an apartment in the same city where he lived in a tent for three years and worked odd jobs to make ends meet.

According to documents obtained by real estate database platform CRE Matrix, Yashasvi Jaiswal purchased an apartment in Mumbai for Rs 5.38 crore.

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Jaiswal, the son of a small shopkeeper from Uttar Pradesh, moved to Mumbai at the age of ten to pursue cricket. In a 2020 interview with Indian Express, he admitted to sleeping at a dairy where he used to work.

"After playing cricket all day, I would get tired and fall asleep. "One day, they threw out my luggage, saying I don't help them and only sleep," he explained.

Jaiswal spent the next three years sleeping in a tent at the Muslim United Club, where his uncle was the manager. During the day, he would sell pani-puri on Azad Maidan to make some money. At night, he would fall asleep, often hungry and jostling for space with the groundsmen with whom he shared a tent.

"I prayed that my teammates would not show up for pani-puri. "Sometimes they did, and I felt bad serving them," he explained.

Jaiswal slept in the tent for three years before his talent was discovered by Jwala Singh, who ran a cricket academy in Santacruz. The rest, as they say, was history.

Jaiswal, 22, now plays for India's cricket team. He is the third youngest cricketer in Test history to have scored two double centuries. The left-handed opener is expected to be the torchbearer of Indian batting for the next decade.

And, as a result of his success, Jaiswal now owns an apartment in the city of dreams, where he previously slept in a tent. He registered the 1,110-square-foot apartment in Bandra East on January 7 of this year.