Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has urged Yashasvi Jaiswal to score more than 700 runs in IPL 2026 as well. He added that middling IPL seasons aren’t helping the opener’s cause in securing a spot in the Indian team across formats either.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel, ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “Yashasvi, I have a request for you. I want you to have a 700-run IPL season. Every year, I think it would be like that for you. You are having 400 to 450-run seasons, but that’s not good enough. Not for you, not for your standard. I need a 700-run season so that you break the door and go in. That’s what I expect from him. That’s what I want from him. So Yashasvi should actually become a three-format player sooner than later.”

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However, Aakash Chopra also expressed surprise that Yashasvi Jaiswal doesn’t play all three formats internationally, but stated that it reflects the depth in Indian cricket too as well.

“It’s surprising. It just tells you how much depth there is in India because you are unable to play Yashasvi in all three formats. He is going after scoring an ODI century and will sit out when the match happens now. So that is a reality. He is not even coming close in T20Is. He is at least in the team in ODIs, but is not in the T20I team. However, it is going to change after the World Cup. I felt it would change before that, but it doesn’t seem like that now. It will change after that and then he should become a three-format player,” Aakash Chopra concluded.