IPL 2023: Yashasvi Jaiswal wins Emerging Player Award - Rajasthan Royals Opener Starred With His Batting

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Rajasthan Royals batter Yashasvi Jaiswal has won the IPL 2023 Emerging Player award courtesy of an outstanding season with the bat.

The youngster has had a magnificent IPL 2023 season and was a deserving winner of the award. It was announced after the IPL 2023 Final on Monday.

IPL 2023: Emerging Player Award 2023 Criteria

The IPL Emerging Player award is generally handed to the starlets of the tournament who have made an impact at a relatively early stage of their IPL career. The criteria for the Emerging Award are-

• The player has to be less than 25 years old, hence the player must have been born after 1st April, 1997.
  
  
• The player mustn't have won the award before and should have played 25 or fewer IPL matches.
  
  
• He should have played 5 or fewer Test matches or less than 20 ODIs.

The RR opener's riveting season in IPL has seen him scoring 625 runs this season. The 21-year-old finished the season as 5th highest run scorer in the tournament, most for RR this season. Jaiswal's elegance combined with sheer aggressive batting was the force behind the Royals' fantastic starts.

The brute power hitting the budding star showed was phenomenal and in a season where Jos Buttler struggled a bit, Jaiswal was Rajasthan's biggest batting pillar.

The southpaw compiled his season with 5 fifties and a hundred. He scored 124 off just 60 balls to get his maiden IPL hundred. The Mumbai batter's emergence at the IPL stage is an inspiring story, and he would be aiming to make it bigger in the coming days.

The stellar show in IPL also has opened up Jaiswal's India dreams. The swashbuckling opener has been added as a backup for the Indian team in the WTC Final and he has already flown to London. Jaiswal's indomitable class will require proper guidance and more hard work in the coming days.

The path of this youngster from the humblest of backgrounds has taken a significant leap. The onus will be only on Jaiswal to keep his feet on the ground and stay focused on his cricket.

Yashasvi Jaiswal IPL 2023 Stats

Yashasvi Jaiswal IPL 2023 Records

1. Yashasvi Jaiswal has set the record for most IPL runs by an uncapped player. The RR opener has 1172 IPL runs to his name in 37 matches.
   
   
2. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored the fastest fifty in the history of IPL. He took only 13 balls to reach to his half-century against the Kolkata Knight Riders.
   
   
3. The 21-year-old also scored the most runs in the first over of an IPL inning, when he took 26 runs off KKR's Nitish Rana's over.
   
   
4. Yashasvi Jaiswal also holds the joint-highest individual score record for a Rajasthan Royals player. He scored 124 runs off 62 balls against Mumbai Indians this season.