The audience watching on the TV screen felt that they were watching the action replay of the first catch while the fans watching live sitting in the Ahmedabad stadium could not believe their eyes.
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In the T20 International, if any one player has created the maximum panic in the last year and a half, then his name is Suryakumar Yadav. This star batsman of the Indian cricket team has created headaches for captains and bowlers around the world, especially in 2022, with his explosive and 360-degree style of batting, while entertaining the fans. Surya’s flair is visible in batting, now this stylish batsman has shown his flair in fielding as well. That too in such a way that hardly anyone would believe. Say this in the live match, Surya has shown action replays of catches in the middle ground.
The World Champion Under-19 Women’s T20 team and the Indian team presented an excellent show in front of thousands of spectators at the world’s largest cricket stadium in Ahmedabad. It started with Shubman Gill’s maiden T20 century, who measured the vastness of the Ahmedabad stadium with his big shots. Gill robbed the gathering in the first one and a half hour.
Ball in the air, Surya jumps, and…
The work for which Surya is recognized in T20 cricket, Gill had done that. On that Surya could not play a big innings in this match. Nevertheless, it is not easy to keep the vice-captain of Team India out of the match and he showed it with his fielding. Captain Hardik Pandya started the bowling in the first over of New Zealand’s innings and on his fourth ball, Finn Allen was caught at second slip position.
The ball came fast and was also very high but Surya, famous for his timing and connection in batting, did the same here and took the catch by raising both hands above his head with a tremendous jump upwards. Both his feet were in the air and the ball was in his hands.
ICYMI – WHAT. A.CATCH🔥🔥#TeamIndia vice-captain @surya_14kumar takes a stunner to get finn allen#INDvNZ , @mastercardindia pic.twitter.com/WvKQK8V67b
— BCCI (@BCCI) February 1, 2023
Live action replays of Surya
This one catch had prepared the atmosphere for Team India’s bowling and fielding. You have already seen the video of the catch above. Now it can be said to say that it was a ‘Tukka’, so watch this catch again and change the batsman’s name to Glenn Phillips. Everything else the same. Bowler Hardik Pandya. Fielder Surya. position slip. Result- High jump in the air, both hands up and sensational catch.
As soon as this catch was shown on the TV screen, it was not easy to believe for once that it was a different catch. Just felt that there is an action replay, but the same action replay happened live in front of the audience at Narendra Modi Stadium and to believe their eyes, the audience had to look at the screen and scoreboard on the field.
contribution with the bat as well
By the way, after this, Surya took an excellent catch of Mitchell Santner at the deep mid-wicket boundary, balancing on which he not only stopped the six but also sent the batsman to the pavilion. Apart from this, Surya also contributed by playing a short but important innings of 24 runs in just 13 balls. With the help of Surya’s important contributions, India scored 234 against New Zealand and then bundled out the Kiwis for 66 to win by a huge margin of 168 runs.
