The 23-year-old announced himself on the bigger stage with a scintillating unbeaten 100 off just 50 balls as Eagle Thane Strikers comfortably chased down a target of 190 against Bandra Blasters in the opening fixture of the fourth edition of the T20 Mumbai League.<\/p>\n
In doing so, Jagtap became only the second batter to score a century in the tournament\u2019s history after Jay Bista\u2019s semifinal hundred in 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am feeling very happy to score a century in my very first match of the T20 Mumbai League. It\u2019s yet to sink in,\u201d Jagtap said moments after the innings. \u201cBut the most important thing is that I contributed to my team\u2019s win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ironically, despite being part of the title-winning MSC Maratha Royals squad last year, Jagtap had never played a T20 Mumbai match before Monday.<\/p>\n
Those who have followed Mumbai\u2019s age-group cricket, however, know that the innings was hardly accidental. Years of training under coaches at MIG Club and constant travelling from the distant central suburbs shaped a batter who rarely appears rushed, irrespective of the format.<\/p>\n
Even after producing one of the finest innings in the league\u2019s history, Jagtap refused to look too far ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not thinking too much ahead,\u201d he said when asked about whether his hundred would open the doors of Mumbai\u2019s T20 team. \u201cI am just focusing on improving my game.\u201d<\/p>\n
ALSO READ | Toughest part of returning to IPL was improving my strike rate, says Sarfaraz Khan<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n The right-hander admits to closely following the batting approaches of Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer, although he hasn\u2019t interacted with either yet.<\/p>\n What perhaps distinguishes Jagtap from many contemporaries is his parallel commitment away from cricket. A commerce graduate, he is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Sports Management at the International Institute of Sports Management.<\/p>\n \u201cWe all know how uncertain cricket is,\u201d Jagtap said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I am studying sports management as a back-up because I love the sports field. If you give proper time to both, cricket and studies can be managed.\u201d<\/p>\n On Monday evening, though, cricket alone demanded attention.<\/p>\n \nBandra Blasters 189 for nine in 20 overs (Suved Parkar 30, Jay Jain 45, Om Keshkamat 40; Shardul Thakur 2\/33, Onkar Tarmale 3\/28) lost to Eagle Thane Strikers 194 for one in 15.2 overs (Sumeir Zaveri 80, Shashwat Jagtap 100 n.o.).\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published on Jun 01, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Every morning during his formative years, Shashwat Jagtap would leave his home in Kalyan and spend nearly two hours travelling across Mumbai to train at the MIG Club in Bandra. On Monday evening at the Wankhede Stadium, those countless commutes finally seemed worthwhile. The 23-year-old announced himself on the bigger stage with a scintillating unbeaten … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/TH02JAGTAP.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-JCR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nBrief scores:
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