Suryakumar Yadav plays a shot during his innings against Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL 2023. (PTI) “He is one of the best, when he gets going, it’s difficult to shut him down,” went Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper on the antics of one Suryakumar Yadav.
The Mumbai Indians middle order batter went berserk on Wednesday as he inspired a six wicket thumping at the Wankhede Stadium, with the hosts chasing down 200 with 21 balls to spare.
Coming in to bat at 51/1, Surya smacking 35-ball-83. An innings laced with seven fours and six maximums.
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“SKY just too good bhai, where do we bowlers bowled to you now,” tweeted Gujarat Titans’ Rashid Khan.
Delhi Capitals’ director of cricket, Sourav Ganguly jumped on the bandwagon, “Suryakumar Yadav the best T20 player in the world…it seems he bats on a computer.”
“Much needed from team’s point of view. I am very happy to win a home game like this. I mean they come up with a plan. They tried to make me hit to the bigger part. Take the pace off and bowl slow. I said Nehal let’s hit it hard and hit it into the gaps and run hard. Your practice has to be the same what you intend to do in matches. I know where my runs are. We have open net sessions. I know my game. I don’t do anything different,” said the player of the match.
Earlier, Rohit Sharma won the toss and put Bangalore in to bat first. Faf du Plessis (65 off 41) and Glenn Maxwell (68 off 33) would propel RCB to 199/6 in their 20 overs.
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