Yashasvi Jaiswal was stated to be the best batter of the five-match Test series between England and India as he started in a great fashion with a century and an 85-run knock in the first couple of fixtures. But his form has suddenly gone down in the last five innings after Jofra Archer squared him up at Lord’s on both occasions.

Jaiswal has scored 293 runs in nine innings at an average of 32.56, and that’s another example of how he started a trip well but found his form going down, exactly like it happened during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 down under. The former India opener, Ajay Jadeja, shed light on what had been going wrong.

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‘At the start, whenever he has failed, his feet come early to where he wants to go. So when the ball comes, the bat should go towards the ball. But with the wrong stance, even when the straight ball is coming, it doesn’t meet the ball in the right direction. So that’s the moment when you start doing that even before taking his feet forward, and that’s more of a mindset than a technique.’ Ajay Jadeja reckoned on Sony Sports.

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‘I have experienced it, and I had the same word on Karun Nair. He doesn’t have issues with the short ball, but once you put your feet up, then you hardly have any choice. Then you have to use the hand only.’ Jadeja addressed.

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Jaiswal has lost his Test average of 50 as he has collected 2091 runs in 45 innings at 48.63. At Oval, he missed the nip-backer from Gus Atkinson to get wrapped onto the pads as the successful DRS from the home side forced the umpire to raise his finger.

‘The problem is around the heel and toe. If you have gone onto the heel, you can adjust the toe. But you can’t go for the vice versa. Once your entire body weight goes into the toe, you can do anything from then on. And that’s happening with Yashasvi Jaiswal, which always happens with the bowlers in maintaining the pace and line-length.’ The former Indian pacer, RP Singh, added.