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Jaiswal Is Not Going to Mumbai
Players · Rajasthan Royals
Mumbai can keep floating his name. Jaipur has already put it on the record: Jaiswal has not asked out, and next season is being planned with him still in the XI.
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A senior Rajasthan Royals official told RevSportz on 25 August that Yashasvi Jaiswal has not asked to leave the franchise. The same voice said 2027 is being planned with him still on the roster, rumours included. The sentence they wanted in print was blunt: from their side, he is their player.
News18 and Republic World ran that quote the next day and tied it to the Mumbai Indians chatter. Nobody from Mumbai has confirmed a bid on the record. Nobody from Jaipur has put Jaiswal in a trade window. The only new fact is the denial, and it came from the club that would have to sell him.
Why it matters
Jaiswal scored 427 runs in 16 innings last season at 152.50. That is a functioning IPL opener, not a passenger. The problem, if you want to call it one, is the kid at the other end. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi took the Orange Cap with 776 runs and turned the Royals' marketing department into a teenage shrine.
Sanju Samson had already gone to Chennai before IPL 2026, with Jadeja and Curran moving the other way. Once that captain left, every leftover senior Indian became a rumour. Jaiswal's name got glued to Hardik Pandya because Mumbai finished ninth and still think a left-hand opener from Jaipur will patch a captaincy mess they created themselves.
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Royals would be mad to trade this. Sooryavanshi is the fireworks. Jaiswal is the adult at the top who has already given them 400-plus seasons more than once. You do not sell the second opener because the first one went viral. You bat them together and make other teams solve the left-hand problem.
Mumbai's interest, if it exists, is obvious and a little desperate. Hardik's IPL 2026 was 206 runs and four wickets. They need an Indian batter who can start an innings without waiting for Rohit to decide if he still wants the job. Jaiswal would help them. That is not Royals' problem. Their problem is keeping two stars in one dressing room without turning the younger one into a reason to dump the older one.
A functionary quote is not a contract. It is still stronger than three months of graphics with lightning bolts. Until the IPL's trade window actually moves him, every Mumbai-Jaiswal mock-up is content, not cricket. Jaipur just told you which column this belongs in.
What to watch next
The next honest documents are the retention sheet and any trade papers Mumbai is willing to put a name on. If Royals name Jaiswal among the players they are keeping, the rumour dies in a filing. If they stay quiet into the auction, the same accounts will recycle the Hardik swap and pretend they never read RevSportz.
Rajasthan Royals' own cut of Jaiswal after the 2023 home game against Chennai. This is the batter they are refusing to put on the market, not a Mumbai audition tape.