India, June 20 -- Yashasvi Jaiswal was not the loudest name in India's ODI selection debate when the Afghanistan series began. That space belonged to others - Rohit Sharma's longevity, Virat Kohli's fitness and future, Shubman Gill's captaincy, Ishan Kishan's return, KL Rahul's role and Shreyas Iyer's place in the middle order.

By the end of the third ODI in Chennai, however, Jaiswal had forced his way into that discussion with a statement that selectors cannot easily ignore. In a series where India had already done enough to seal the result, the left-hander used the final match to make a serious case for the next big ODI assignment, especially the South Africa conversation.

The match situation gave India a perfect platform to test thei...