Former India head coach Ravi Shastri has praised Suryakumar Yadav’s counter-attacking knock towards RCB in an IPL 2022 match, including that the Mumbai batter’s skill to play with the sector is ‘unreal’ and he deserves a ‘Surya Namaskar’ for his exploits.
Suryakumar had missed the primary two video games for Mumbai within the ongoing season on account of a hairline fracture in his thumb, however he made a formidable return to the event with back-to-back half-centuries.
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After scoring 52 towards Kolkata Knight Riders earlier this week, the batter pulled off a counter-punching 37-ball 68, laced with 5 boundaries and 6 sixes and helped Mumbai put up a preventing whole of 151 for six on the board towards RCB.
“Unbelievable. He performed a gem of their final sport. Today (Saturday) was actually particular. When you’re 50/0 after which 89/6 after which your group scores 71 runs within the final 5 overs with Surya doing many of the injury, you already know on the finish of the knock as he passes by, say ‘Surya Namaskar’,” Shastri advised Star Sports.
“At the stage when you have your team on the mat, to throw a counter-punch like he did, it was amazing,” he added.
The veteran cricket commentator additionally feels that Suryakumar’s skill to play with the sector effortlessly makes him probably the greatest all-round hitters of the sport.
“The number of pictures he performs, the wrist work, the facility he brings to his sport, his uncanny skill to take a look at the place the gaps are and hit there, he’s simply very unreal. AB de Villiers in his prime did it. You received’t get too many like them in cricket, there was de Villiers, there may be Buttler and Suryakumar. He is true up there on the world stage,” he mentioned.
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Meanwhile, former West Indies cricketer Ian Bishop was also impressed with the 31-year-old’s batting and called him as a phenomenal player.
“Suryakumar Yadav either has three shot options for each delivery; or he knows what the bowler is going to deliver before the bowler himself knows. Phenomenal player,” Bishop wrote on Twitter.
After shedding 4 consecutive matches, the Rohit Sharma-led Mumbai Indians will now tackle Punjab Kings of their subsequent IPL 2022 match on Wednesday.
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