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Suryakumar Yadav is within the type of his life. The No. 1 T20I batter, in line with ICC rankings, just lately completed because the third-highest scorer on the 2022 T20 World Cup with a tally of 239 in six matches at a mind-boggling strike-rate of 189.68. He continued his kind within the just lately concluded T20I sequence in opposition to New Zealand. He scored 124 in two innings, together with a century. He bagged ‘Player of the Series’ award for his effort. India gained the sequence 1-0, and Suryakumar’s 51-ball 111* had an enormous function to play within the Hardik Pandya-led crew notching up the one gained within the sequence within the second T20I.
Australia star Glenn Maxwell lauded the trouble. “I didn’t know the game was on. But I later checked the scorecard and sent the picture of that to Finchy (Aaron Finch) and said, ‘What is going on here? He is batting on a completely different planet! Look at the everyone else’s scores and look at this bloke scoring scoring 111 off 50.’,” Maxwell mentioned in a dialogue on ‘The Grade Cricketer’.
“The next I watched the full replay of the innings the next day and it’s embarrassing thing is that he is so much better than everyone else. It’s almost hard to watch. No one we have got is close to that.”
When requested jokingly, whether or not Suryakumar would possibly get a Big Bash League contract in future, Maxwell mentioned: “We don’t have enough money. There is no chance. We will have to sack every player and the sack every contracted player of Cricket Australia(laughs).”
Suryakumar will subsequent characteristic within the ODI sequence in opposition to New Zealand beginning Friday.
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