The star Indian batting sensation Suryakumar Yadav has accomplished the highest feat in his T20I career. The 32-year-old is enjoying the form of his life with the bat while playing for the national side of India in the T20Is since his debut in international cricket last year against England.
Speaking of the highest feat he has achieved that we’ve discussed above, the Mumbai-based blistering has become World’s number-one batter in the T20 internationals. Talking about his last ten appearances in the T20Is for India, SKY has stunned the entire cricketing fraternity with his swashbuckling performances with seven half-centuries from India’s bilateral clash against Australia followed till the ongoing 20-20 World Cup 2022.
Indian cricket fans are also overjoyed at this amazing achievement of Suryakumar Yadav in the shortest format of the game. They took to Twitter to heap praises on one of the finest contemporary batters in the T20Is.
Here’s how fans reacted:
Suryakumar Yadav claims the No.1 T20i ranking.
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) November 2, 2022
A wonderful journey for Sky!
Debut on 2021 March and number 1 ranked batsman in 2022 November.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) November 2, 2022
What a remarkable journey for Suryakumar Yadav in T20I.
What a journey of Suryakumar Yadav. He debut in 2021 in T20I for India and now November 2022 he becomes No.1 ranked batsman in the world in ICC rankings. He deserves this place. Incredible journey. Well done, SKY.
— CricketMAN2 (@ImTanujSingh) November 2, 2022
Update: Suryakumar Yadav is the new World No. 1 batter in T20I cricket, his rating points are 863. Mohammad Rizwan has dropped to No. 2 with 842 rating points, Devon Conway is No. 3 with 792 and Babar Azam No. 4 with 780.
— Farid Khan (@_FaridKhan) November 2, 2022
Richly deserved, @surya_14kumar 👏👏 #T20WorldCup
SKY NEW T20 NO.1 🥳 #T20WorldCup #suryakumaryadav #SKY #ICCRankings pic.twitter.com/jyUaf8lJIj
— M S 🏄🏻♂️ (@itsMayanksharma) November 2, 2022
Every true cricket fan will agree that Suryakumar Yadav deserves the number one spot more than anyone else 👍#INDvsBAN pic.twitter.com/NjGvQjMn12
— Azan Ahmad (@azanahmad257) November 2, 2022
T20 Cricket is finally healing 👏🏻
— Kriti Singh 💫 (@kritiitweets) November 2, 2022
SuryaKumar Yadav well deserved No.1 T20 batter 👑
Dynamic batters moving up in ICC Rankings good for T20 cricket
ICC should give emphasis on strike rate than avg. to uphold true merit of T20 rankings & keep statpadders away from top position. pic.twitter.com/TizorhS4IT
Believe me, there's no other stylish & skillful player right now at No.4 who can produce the kind of results what Suryakumar Yadav can.
— Fahad Abbasi 🇵🇰 (@thefahadabbasi) November 2, 2022
Truly deserved to be No.1 in #ICCRankings.#SuryakumarYadav #INDvsBAN pic.twitter.com/9i1Vx3t2GL
No.1 T20 Batsman SKY 💥💥💥
— GuruBhai2003 (@GTeja2003) November 2, 2022
Amazing journey.. Kepp going @surya_14kumar #SuryaKumarYadav #SKY #ICCRankings #T20WC2022 #T20WorldCup2022 #TeamIndia #IndianCricketTeam #INDvsBAN pic.twitter.com/edg0ACrzNt
Speaking of his outings in the ongoing 20-02 World Cup, Suryakumar has smashed two half-centuries in the three innings he played so far in the tournament. He had scored 134 runs with an amazing average of 44.6 in the marquee tournament.
Currently, Suryakumar is set to appear in his fourth match for India in the ongoing tournament against Bangladesh.
Discussing the ongoing match between India and Bangladesh, the men in blue have scored 78 runs for the loss of two wickets in 9.2 overs. At the time of filling this copy, KL Rahul fell prey to the Bangla skipper Shakib Al Hasan with an individual score of 50 runs. Former skipper Virat Kohli is there in the middle on a score of 23 runs off 18 balls with four boundaries.