Yashasvi Jaiswal’s first Test series in England was a story of peaks and troughs.

The 23-year-old Indian opener began the ENG vs IND 2025 Test with a hundred in Leeds and signed off with another at The Oval, but the stretch in between yielded just a couple of fifties across seven innings.

In fact, Yashasvi Jaiswal’s fighting century at The Oval proved to be decisive as India edged the final Test by just six runs to draw the series 2-2.

When the runs dried up, Jaiswal turned to a trusted voice - Zubin Bharucha, the Rajasthan Royals Director of High Performance and his mentor since 2020.

Speaking to the Times of India, Bharucha revealed that a candid chat on the morning of Day Two at The Oval helped Jaiswal hit a much-needed reset and then his sixth Test ton.

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“He (Yashasvi) was naturally a bit frustrated that he wasn’t getting the runs after starting the series so well. I gave him a little bamboo (scolding), Bharucha said with a laugh.

“I reminded him about how tough the journey was to get to this point and to remember all the things that got him here. I told him to go out and bat like a 'dada' (dominate the opposition bowlers) and play some 'khadoos' (gritty) cricket, Mumbai maidan style.”

Technical advice followed. Bharucha had also identified that Jaiswal was planting his front foot too early and keeping the bat angle too straight, a flaw that left him vulnerable to fuller inswingers.

"It happens when you get a little anxious to get to the ball, especially when you're not scoring many runs,” he explained. "My advice to him was about not planting the front foot too early and ensuring the correct angles were maintained when the bowler went around the wicket."

The adjustments paid off. In the second innings, Jaiswal altered his stance, moving closer to the leg stump to counter the movement.

He unleashed a series of fierce cuts and punished any width, crafting a brilliant 118 off 164 balls, laced with 14 fours and two sixes. It was an innings that combined patience with aggression.

Bharucha credited the turnaround to both technical tweaks and mental steel.

“Despite all this, you still need some luck, some courage, and some Mumbai-style khadoos batting, which he displayed in abundance while scoring his sixth Test hundred,” he said.

With that century, Jaiswal ended the series with 411 runs, including two hundreds, and crossed the 2000-run milestone in Tests.