Surya reaping the rewards of focusing on hard work, fitness
The Statesman Delhi|November 08, 2022
Suryakumar Yadav has had a phenomenal run this year in the T20 format of the game which has seen him climb to the top of the ICC rankings list to occupy the number one slot.
SS RAMASWAMY
Surya reaping the rewards of focusing on hard work, fitness

The 32-year-old Mumbai batsman has shown remarkable consistency in a format in which this is not the norm, especially at the strike rate which he has maintained.

Surya has amassed 1026 runs from in 2022 at an average of 44-plus and a strike rate of 186, a no mean achievement.

He has been in tremendous form in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup that has reached the semi-final stage now in Australia, with a tally of 225.

His run tally includes three half tons and he is averaging 75 at a strike rate of a shade under 194. He has a career strike rate of 179 from 39 matches which is nothing short of sensational. Surya’s pyrotechnics in his 61 not out in 25 balls against Zimbabwe in India’s last league game, in which he played the lap and pull shot from outside the off stump against the pacers, also fetched him a deserving man of the match award.

India will be hoping that Surya continues in this vein.

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