After the Rajasthan Royals’ (RR) win in their IPL 2026 Eliminator match against the SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH), former India player Aakash Chopra has said that one needs to feel bad for Yashasvi Jaiswal. He added that the RR opener might get trolled and not get picked in the Indian team as well.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel, ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “Yashasvi Jaiswal also played 29 balls, but he was going at a run-a-ball. You need to feel for Yashasvi Jaiswal because he is feeling the pressure that is not of his own making. It has been forced on him. This is how nature sometimes works. The kid at the other end is so explosive that we haven’t seen something like that to date. Then it seems like what you are doing isn’t enough.”
“Then you try to hit more and get out. At times, you feel you should take a single and go to the other end. You are unable to justify whether you are doing the right thing. On top of that, you will get the trolls and won’t get selected, and then you will say things went wrong. You would figure out in the next season how to score 600 runs while playing with Vaibhav Suryavanshi,” he further added.
However, Aakash Chopra lauded Dhruv Jurel for scoring a quick half-century in the IPL 2026 Eliminator.
“I think Dhruv Jurel’s knock was excellent. He scored 50 runs off 21 balls, which was outstanding. Wonderful stroke-maker. I think this was his sixth half-century, and he changes the tempo. He runs fast at times and slow on other occasions. He does all of that beautifully,” he said.
“However, I still felt 270 runs should have been scored. 136 runs had been scored in 10 overs, and one guy had gotten out. So double it at least. The second half was actually bad. The last four overs were really poor, but you scored 243 runs despite that,” Chopra concluded.
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