Suryakumar Yadav is known for his stormy batting, but this batsman played a special innings on the ground of Lucknow.
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The Indian cricket team defeated New Zealand in the second T20 match played in Lucknow. With this, he has equalized 1-1 in the three-match T20 series. The New Zealand team could not stand a big score. Team India, on the basis of their spinners, stopped them for 99 runs after losing eight wickets in 20 overs. This target seemed easy but when Team India started chasing this target, its problems kept on increasing. The result was that India achieved this target one ball earlier. Suryakumar Yadav played an important role in this, who played a special innings in this match.
Help of spinners Team India fed three spinners on this. Along with this, part time spinner Deepak Hooda was also used. The turn on the pitch was such that it was difficult for the batsmen to survive. No batsman scored a half-century in this match. Suryakumar was not only the top scorer of Team India but of the entire match.
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India got a slow start. In the form of Shubman Gill, India lost its first wicket on the fifth ball of the fourth over. He was able to score 11 runs. Ishan Kishan was dismissed after scoring 19 runs in 32 balls. Only 13 runs came off the bat of Rahul Tripathi. Washington Sundar, who scored a half-century in the last match, could not take his innings beyond 10 runs. Meanwhile, the run rate was also slow and New Zealand had kept a check on the runs on the basis of their spinners. It was getting difficult to score runs.
In such a situation, Suryakumar, who batted stormy, understood the situation and set foot on the wicket. Usually, Suryakumar rains fours and sixes, but in this match, only one four came out of the bat of this right-handed batsman, that too the winning four, which he hit on the fifth ball of the 20th over. Suryakumar’s strike rate was also less than 100 in this match. Suryakumar scored an unbeaten 26 off 31 balls and during this time his strike rate was 83.87. If Suryakumar’s strike rate is seen in T20, then it is 175.63. With him, Captain Pandya remained unbeaten after scoring 15 runs in 20 balls. He also hit a four.
first time this happened
If Suryakumar’s T20 career is seen, then in very few matches in which his strike rate was less than 100. However, this is the first time that Suryakumar has played more than 15 balls in a T20 International match and scored runs at a strike rate of less than 100. In the T20 match played against Sri Lanka on January 3 this year, Suryakumar had a strike rate of 70 but in this match, Suryakumar scored seven runs in 10 balls. In the T20 match played against New Zealand in Ranchi on 19 November 2021, he scored one run facing two balls. In Suryakumar’s career so far, these three matches have been such when his account is open and his strike rate has been less than 100.