‘Opportunity aayega, mehnat kar’: Virat Kohli to Vishal Jayswal

Like Axar Patel, Jayswal hails from Nadiad in Gujarat’s Kheda district and began his cricket journey at the same academy where Team India’s T20I vice-captain took his first steps. Jayswal lost his father when he was just eight months old. As he grew older, cricket became his passion, and he told his mother of his dream to become a professional cricketer. The road was far from easy, but his mother stood firmly by him.