Rajasthan Royals opener Yashasvi Jaiswal played a brilliant tackle in the match played against Kolkata Knight Riders last Thursday (May 11). Jaiswal scored 98* on 47 balls with the help of 13 fours and 5 sixes. During this, his unemployment rate was 208.51. RBC’s Virat Kohli was surprised to see this innings from Rajasthan’s leadoff batsman. Praising Yashasvi, he said: ‘What a talent.’
Seeing Yashasvi Jaiswal’s entries, Virat Kohli shared a story from his Instagram account. Kohli wrote: “This is some of the best hitting I’ve seen in a long time. What a talent.” Along with this, he also tagged Yashasvi in his story. Due to this entry by Yashasvi, Rajasthan won the match very easily. 
In this match played against KKR, Yashasvi also did the feat of scoring the fastest half-century in IPL. Jaiswal had completed fifty in just 13 balls. In this case, he broke the record of Indian batsman KL Rahul and Australian player Pat Cummins.
Rahul did this feat while playing for Punjab Kings and Pat Cummins while playing for KKR. Both players held the record for scoring the fastest half-century in 14 balls in the IPL. However, now this record is named after Yashasvi Jaiswal of Rajasthan Royals.
Batting first in the match, the Kolkata Knight Riders team put 149 runs on the board with the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. Chasing runs, Rajasthan Royals achieved the target in just 13.1 overs by just 1 wicket. Aside from Yashasvi Jaiswal, captain Sanju Samson scored 48 runs off 29 balls with the help of 2 fours and 5 sixes.