Ryan ten Doeschate questions Yashasvi Jaiswal’s absence in India ODI team, calls opener’s omission ‘ridiculous’ originally appeared on Cricket News. Add Cricket News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
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Ryan ten Doeschate has called Yashasvi Jaiswal’s absence from India‘s ODI side ridiculous.
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Jaiswal averages 71.25 in ODIs with two centuries from six matches.
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The former India assistant coach also revealed Jaiswal is not a good net batter.
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Ten Doeschate on Jaiswal’s ODI omission
Yashasvi Jaiswal has played six ODIs for India, scored 285 runs at 71.25 and made two hundreds, and is currently in Lincoln with the India A side while the senior team plays a five-match ODI series in the same country. Ryan Ten Doeschate does not think that is enough.
India’s former assistant coach was asked about it on the TalkSport Cricket Podcast and did not soften the answer. “He is desperate to play ODI cricket as well. He doesn’t get into the team, which is crazy,” he said. “It’s ridiculous.” Ten Doeschate was careful to place limits on his authority.
“There are some players we were chatting about yesterday who aren’t in the team,” he said. “But just to be clear, I wasn’t the batting coach, so I didn’t have that direct access to players in terms of working that closely with them. I’d chip in here and there and maybe complement what the batting coach and the head coach were saying.”
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He also spoke about Jaiswal’s temperament, and specifically how he reacts to getting out. “He is so hungry to do well. 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.”
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Gautam Gambhir Head Coach and Ryan ten Doeschate Assistant Coach
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The net sessions that do not predict the innings
Ten Doeschate also offered a detail that complicates how selectors and coaches assess a player, which is that Jaiswal does not look the part in practice. “One of those strange situations where he’s actually not a great netter,” he said. “Very, very hungry, works very, very hard.”
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His example came from the 2024-25 tour of Australia and from a build-up that suggested trouble. “I’ll never forget it happened in Australia, that whole build-up in Perth,” ten Doeschate said. “He just didn’t look like he could play the short ball in the nets.”
The match showed a different side. “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.” Jaiswal went on to make 161 in the second innings at Perth, as India won by 295 runs, and finished the series as their leading run-scorer.
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Why the ODI door keeps staying shut for Jaiswal
The argument against Jaiswal in ODIs has never really been about him. India’s openers are Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill, one of whom is captain and the other one has 8,000-plus ODI runs, and neither has given the selectors a reason to move on. That logic holds until it suddenly does not.
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Rohit is 39, has 23 runs from two innings on this tour, and the 2027 World Cup begins in South Africa in October next year, by which point he will be 40. A reserve opener who averages 71 in the format with two centuries is not a selection problem; he is the insurance the side will probably need. The sharper issue is how little India is doing to find out.
Jaiswal has played six ODIs in three years, and he is playing unofficial Tests in Lincoln while the ODI series he might have featured in is happening 400 kilometres away.
India have three ODIs against Sri Lanka in December and three against Zimbabwe in January before the World Cup year properly starts, and those are close to the last chances to give him innings that count.
Ten Doeschate’s word for it was ridiculous. The more accurate word might be ‘wasteful’, because the selection call is defensible, and the consequence of never testing the alternative is not.
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