Canada's Yuvraj Samra Adopts Yashasvi Jaiswal’s Coach As His Guru

Yuvraj Samra (L), Yashasvi Jaiswal (C), and Jwala Singh (R) (Source: AFP/X)

Canada’s India-origin teenage batting sensation, Yuvraj Samra, made it to the headlines with his blistering century against the top-ranked team, New Zealand, in the ongoing T20 World Cup 2026. He smashed 110 runs off just 65 balls, with 11 fours and six sixes.  

Yuvraj Samra also became the youngest batter to smash a century in the prestigious cricket biennial at the age of just 19 years and 141 days.  

Now, the Canadian batting prodigy is set to be trained under young India batter Yashasvi Jaiswal’s childhood coach, Jwala Singh. 

“It feels good to see your students do well” - Jwala Singh about Yuvraj Samra

Jaiswal’s childhood coach, Jwala Singh, revealed the news of Yuvraj Samra’s visit to Mumbai later this week. He also shared the plans of young Canadian batter’s training sessions in Mumbai. 

“After someone referred my name to him, Yuvraj took online sessions with me during Covid, and stayed in touch with me since then. I keep guiding him on his technique and mindset,” said Jwala Singh to Mumbai Mirror on Wednesday. 

“He will come to train under me on February 21 (Canada were knocked out of the league stage of the tournament), and will be here for eight or nine days.”

“I plan to train at three or four places in Mumbai, including my academy at the Air India ground, and will also take him to the Oval Maidan at Churchgate to practice long-range hitting. He wanted to train under me before the World Cup but couldn’t,” he added later.  

Jwala Singh also discussed the session when he trained Yuvraj for the first time. Singh also said that Samra’s game impressed him a lot during the first session. 

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The man behind one of India’s rising talents, Yashasvi Jaiswal, also spoke about his conversation with Yuvraj Samra’s father, Baljit Singh Samra. 

“In the first session that I had with him, I told him that I was very impressed by his game. As a cricket coach, it feels good to see your students do well. I spoke to his father. He was anxious and felt Yuvraj needed to churn out a big knock to get noticed. He’s a very humble boy,” Jwala Singh said. 

“Yuvraj’s best part is that he’s very calm at the crease. He doesn’t panic, and hits some really big shots, as you saw yesterday,” he concluded.

Yuvraj Samra enjoys amazing run of form in T20 World Cup 2026

Notably, Yuvraj is currently the leading run-scorer for Canada in the ongoing T20 World Cup 2026. He has scored 127 runs in three innings at an amazing average of 42.33 and a brilliant strike rate of 162.82, hitting a century. 

Now, He will be in action in Canada’s last group-stage fixture against Afghanistan at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Thursday. However, Canada haven’t been through an expected run of form in the tournament so far, facing three consecutive defeats in the tournament so far.  

They will aim to end their campaign with a consolation victory against Afghanistan in the penultimate fixture of the tournament’s group stage. 

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