India’s personal Mr. 360 Suryakumar Yadav proved but once more why he’s the No. 1 T20 batter on the earth, scoring an excellent half-century because the crew thwarted the Afghanistan problem within the T20 World Cup 2024 Tremendous 8 conflict on Thursday. Suryakumar got here out to bat when the likes of Rohit Sharma and Rishabh Pant had departed early. The batter orchestrated an excellent partnership with Hardik Pandya to take India to 181 runs in 20 overs. Within the course of, Surya additionally matched a World File that was held by Virat Kohli.
Courtesy of Surya’s 28-ball 53, India defeated Afghanistan by 47 runs within the match. Because of this, the middle-order batter was named the Participant of the Match, for the fifteenth time within the historical past of T20 worldwide cricket. By the way, that is additionally the all-time document, held by Kohli. Whereas Surya is now stage with the India nice on the document, he did so in practically half the innings.
Most POTM awards in T20Is:
Suryakumar Yadav – 15 (61 innings)
Virat Kohli – 15 (113 innings)
Surya, the world’s No. 1-ranked T20I batter, performed his conventional photographs, barely leaving an inch on the bottom untouched.
“That is what I’ve practiced, I take pleasure in batting from overs 7-15 as a result of that is probably the most troublesome part the place the opposition bowlers look to regulate issues. I wish to take cost in that part, I take pleasure in it,” Surya instructed the broadcasters through the innings break.
After India misplaced Rohit, Rishabh Pant and Virat Kohli added 43 for the second wicket to considerably regular the sinking Indian ship earlier than Rashid Khan’s twin strikes left India reeling at 62 for 3.
“I began chewing my gum tougher when he (Kohli) received out. I simply backed my recreation and my instincts.
“I’ve performed plenty of cricket with him (Rohit Sharma) and now underneath him, he understands my recreation. He is aware of my recreation, so he sits again and enjoys it,” Surya mentioned.
India got here into the match with a flawless document, having gained three video games within the group marketing campaign whereas one match in opposition to Canada was washed out. Afghanistan, however, suffered a 104-run loss to West Indies of their ultimate group match and confronted defeat in opposition to Rohit Sharma’s crew too.
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