‘I am out of runs but not out of form,’ says Suryakumar Yadav as string of low scores continue in India’s third T20I win over South Africa

There were some question marks over his form late last year in the few innings he played after India’s 2024 T20 World Cup win and the way he continued this year shows that the dip was no anomaly. In 18 innings that he has batted in this year, Suryakumar has scored 213 runs at a strike rate of 125.29 and average of 14.20. This is against a career strike rate of 163.60 and average of 35.67 in 92 innings.

Suryakumar said that he was proud of how his team bounced back from the defeat they suffered in the second T20I though. “I think this sport teaches you a lot of things. How you come back into the series is more important. And we did the same thing, we wanted to go back to basics, do the same things we were doing in Cuttack, and the results were on our side,” he said.

“See, there was a lot of learning from the game we played in (New) Chandigarh. The bowlers sat together, we had a good team meeting as well,” he noted.