- India’s T20 team captain Suryakumar Yadav wreaked havoc on bowlers in a Ranji Trophy match. He played an innings of 200 runs while batting in a fiery style.
Suryakumar Yadav: Team India’s T20 captain Suryakumar Yadav is considered to be the most dangerous batsman in the shortest format of cricket. He can play shots in every direction of the ground, due to which bowlers also seem to shy away from bowling to him. Suryakumar Yadav has the power to send even good balls out of the field. But in the meantime, his fans are remembering his brilliant innings in the Ranji Trophy. Surya created a ruckus in Ranji and scored 200 runs in a brilliant style.
Surya hit a double-century
Suryakumar Yadav plays domestic cricket for Mumbai. In the Ranji Trophy match played between Mumbai and Odisha in November 2011, Suryakumar thrashed the bowlers of Odisha. In this match, Surya came to bat at number 5 and from the very beginning, he started sending the ball out of the boundary line. Suryakumar’s bat produced a total of 200 runs in 232 balls in this match, which included 28 fours and a six. Thanks to this innings of Suryakumar, Mumbai scored 529 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in the first innings, after which the then captain of Mumbai, Wasim Jaffer, declared the innings.
Mumbai won the match
In this match, Mumbai batted first and scored 529 runs on the scoreboard with the help of Suryakumar Yadav’s explosive century, in response to which Odisha was all out for just 93 runs in their first innings. After this, Mumbai made Odisha follow on and their second innings was also wrapped up for 226 runs. Mumbai’s team won this match by a huge margin of an innings and 210 runs. While Suryakumar Yadav was awarded the Player of the Match title for his explosive 200-run innings. 200 runs is also Suryakumar’s highest individual score in first-class cricket.
Suryakumar’s stats
Suryakumar Yadav has played 83 T20 matches for India so far, in which he has scored 2598 runs at an average of 38.20 and a tremendous strike rate of 167.07. During this, 4 centuries and 21 half-century innings have come from his bat. Apart from T20, Surya has also played 37 ODIs for India, in which he has scored just 773 runs at an average of 25.76. During this, he has been successful in scoring four half-centuries. At the same time, Suryakumar Yadav has scored 8 runs in the innings of a Test against India.
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