‘Just love to go out and enjoy myself’: Yashasvi Jaiswal

Yashasvi Jaiswal celebrates India’s win on Saturday. Pic/AP; PTI

After staying unbeaten on 84 off 51 balls in just his second T20I game and helping India thrash West Indies by nine wickets in the fourth T20I at the Central Broward Regional Park Stadium on Saturday, India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal said he intends to express himself and play as per the requirements of the team.

Gill and Jaiswal absolutely bossed the chase of 179 to help India level the series 2-2. Jaiswal hit 11 fours and five sixes in his maiden T20I fifty while sharing a 165-run partnership with Gill as India pulled off the highest successful men's T20I chase at the venue. "Of course, [playing international cricket] is not easy, but I just love to go out and enjoy myself. I'd love to thank Hardik [Pandya] bhai and the support staff. The way they have spoken really had an impact.

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"I just try to play what the team need and how I can express myself. I just think of how quickly I can score and how many runs I can get in the powerplay. Of course, reading the wicket and reading the situation [is important], but my intent is always to score runs. It was really amazing [to bat with Gill] and knew which bowlers to take on. I have faced them [Jason Holder and Obed McCoy] many times so I can read them well," said Jaiswal in the post-match presentation ceremony, upon receiving the Player-of-the-Match award.

Gill and Jaiswal combined power and timing to hit sizzling shots and find boundaries easily against a listless West Indies bowling line-up in their mammoth 165-run opening stand. The association between Gill and Jaiswal is also the joint-highest opening wicket partnership for India in men's T20Is, tied with the pair of KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma, who had the same amount of runs in their opening stand against Sri Lanka in December 2017.

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Yashasvi Jaiswal's strike rate against WI on Saturday. He scored 84 not out off 51 balls

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