Shane Watson Gives Suryakumar Yadav High Praise for Having a “Really Rare Talent”. Due to his recent success, Suryakumar Yadav is now ranked as the top hitter in the ICC Men’s T20I rankings.
Legendary Australian all-rounder Shane Watson admires outstanding Indian batter Suryakumar Yadav, calling him a “unique skill” for the way he reads bowlers and is aware of where the field is positioned. One of India’s top players in the 2022 T20 World Cup has been Suryakumar Yadav. He rose to the top spot among batters in the ICC Men’s T20I rankings as a result of his recent achievements. The batsman has 225 runs at an average of 75.50 in five games thus far, with three half-centuries.
“It is a really rare talent where his ability to really read a bowler, where he is going to bowl and where the fielders are, and his control over where the ball goes, it is a very rare talent. We have not really seen it much before,”
ICC cited Watson as having said.
“To be able to do it so consistently, to be able to do it in one or two games, that can happen. But to be able to do it so consistently in the big games? He is a special talent and it does not look like anything is going to change. It looks like he is going to be out to continue to do this for a long time. It just looks low-risk, even though what he does is high risk,”
Watson continued
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He is the first player in T20I history to score 1,000 runs in a calendar year. His strike rate for these runs was 186.24.
Suryakumar has scored 1,026 runs at an average of 44.60 in 28 T20I innings this season. His bat has produced one hundred and nine half-centuries, with a top score of 117. The strike rate for these runs was 186.24. The first player in T20I history to score 1,000 runs in a single calendar year is Suryakumar, who is also the first Indian to do it.
Despite having a stellar T20 cricket history, particularly with the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL), Watson believes that few few players have attained the level of talents Suryakumar possesses.
The all-rounder claimed that watching Suryakumar bat is a true joy, adding that few players in the shortest format of T20 cricket have been able to perform as well as he has under unfamiliar circumstances in Australia.
“It really is a treat to be able to watch SKY bat over the last two years watching him in the IPL and performing as well as he has. But then to be able to turn it on like he has in international cricket as well is something to behold. What he is able to do in these foreign conditions in Australia alone is something that not many people have ever been able to do in T20 cricket,”
Watson stated.
On November 10, India and England will play in the second semifinal of the competition at Adelaide Oval. With eight points and four victories out of five games, they finished first in their Group stage.
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