Mumbai: In a stunning development and a setback for Mumbai cricket, TOI has learnt that India’s Test opener Yashasvi Jaiswal has decided to quit Mumbai and move to Goa. Jaiswal will captain Goa in the 2025-26 season.
“Yes, Jaiswal has decided to move to Goa. He will soon apply to the Mumbai Cricket Association for a No-Objection Certificate to move to Goa,” a source told TOI.
The 23-year-old made his first-class debut for Mumbai at the Wankhede Stadium in January 2019 against Chhattisgarh, and has scored a majority of his 3712 first-class runs, including 12 hundreds and 12 fifties, in 36 matches for Mumbai.
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Even though he belongs to the Bhadohi village in Uttar Pradesh, Jaiswal has a deep emotional connect with Mumbai, where he has played all his cricket so far. As a kid, he used to sleep in the Muslim United SC tent at the Azad Maidan and sometimes sell panipuris in the evening to make a living, before his childhood coach/mentor Jwala Singh took him to his home in Santa Cruz.
He first attracted attention by making huge scores for the Rizvi Springfield School in the Harris Shield (inter-school competition for Under-16), and then did well for the Mumbai Under-16, Under-19 and Under-23 teams, before being picked for the Mumbai senior team.
Busy with his India commitments, Jaiswal could turn out in just one match for Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy last season, scoring 4 & 26 in the five-wicket defeat to Jammu & Kashmir at the MCA ground in January this year.
The left-hander has been struggling for form while playing for the Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2025, where he has managed to score only 34 runs in three matches @ 11.33, with a strike rate of 106.25.
Jaiswal was one of the standout performers for India in the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, where he scored 391 runs in five Tests @ 43.44 , with one century and two half-centuries.
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