L ooks like Yashasvi Jaiswal is part of some greater plan; the idea cannot be more emphatic than what has been revealed by the men in blue think tank over the week gone by; and one has to look here, per se, Ajit Agarkar, the chair of the national selection committee.

The former India allrounder and the head coach Gautam Gambhir have stuck their neck out to bring the Mumbai left-hander, now a whiz-bang Test opener, into the World Cup scheme of things.

The quadrennial 50-over World Cup is going to be played in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia two years later (October-November 2027) and Agarkar and his committee and Gambhir, a World Cup winner in 2011, believe that a virtuoso like Jaiswal cannot be kept in the sidelines for too long. Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma

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