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‘Jinse baat Kiya hai unke khud ke pakode Lage hain batting ke’ – Fans react as Suryakumar Yadav claims to improve his ODI ahead form of Asia Cup 2023
India middle-order batter Suryakumar Yadav hasn’t been at his best in his 26-game ODI career started in 2021. He has only managed to amass 511 runs averaging 24.33 including two fifties. These numbers haven’t been able to justify his white-ball skills as the right-hander averages 46.02 in T20I cricket with four hundreds. Meanwhile, ahead of the Asia Cup 2023, Yadav spoke to the broadcasters.
The Mumbaikar said that he is hoping to crack the ODI format and has been talking about it with the head coach Rahul Dravid, former and current skippers, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.
“I am hoping that I can crack the ODI format soon, I have been talking with Rahul sir, Rohit, Virat a lot for getting better in ODI.
“I’ve talked to Rohit Bhai, Virat bhai and Rahul Bhai. I’ll try to improve in the ODI format without changing my approach,” Surya told Star Sports.
India: Rohit Sharma (c), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya (vc), Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumraj, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Sanju Samson (traveling reserve).
India will play their first game against Pakistan on September 2.
This is how Twitter reacted
The guy has hardly played anything more than 40 balls only twice..ye janaab khelenge odi 👍
— Archer (@poserarcher) August 28, 2023
https://twitter.com/TheCrickFun/status/1696130610811855268?s=20
Last chance for getting picked in WC squad
— Telugu Digi (@Telugudz) August 28, 2023
KL Rahul bhai or Rahul Dravid bhai? 🤔
— Sameer Allana (@HitmanCricket) August 28, 2023
It's sad to hear that Surya has been informed that he hasn’t been able to crack the ODI format. His cricketing skills are exemplary. However, the team management appears to have faltered in orchestrating his entry onto the batting crease. Ideally, his arrival should be timed…
— Karthik Kalyan (@carthik1988) August 28, 2023
Right approach!
He need not to change his way to play cricket in different formats.
Team management should try to give him chance at No – 6.
— Manjeet kumar🇮🇳#RB (@Manjeetkumar_) August 28, 2023
https://twitter.com/MSD_071113_/status/1696129550739214595?s=20
https://twitter.com/Iconic_Rohit/status/1696129738417533047?s=20
Stay Away From Coach Rahul Dravid And You Will Definitely Crack It
— Aufridi Chumtya (@ShuhidAufridi) August 28, 2023
T20I form reciprocation loading.
— Bala45 (@bala45_rohit) August 28, 2023