Suryakumar Yadav’s unbeaten 68 against Hong Kong will be one of the best in the history of the Asia Cup tournament. Putting your stamp of authority on the number. 4, The Mumbai right-handed batsman changed the course of the Indian innings.
13. When the Men in Blue were reduced to 94/2 after the departure of KL Rahul, he went out to batth above. Since then, they haven’t looked back as they worked together Virat Kohli and shared a rock-solid unbeaten 98 runs. Both the batsmen scored their respective fifties: India Scored 197 runs for 2 wickets in 20 overs.
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The Kohli-Suryakumar pair added 57 runs in the last 18 balls to clean bowl the Hong Kong bowlers. The most entertaining was the final over when the Mumbai batsman hit 4 sixes before taking a double off the last ball.
After India’s win against Hong Kong, Kohli and Suryakumar spoke to each other, and a video of the conversation was released on bcci.tv. The former captain praised his batting partner and said that he thoroughly enjoyed the latter’s innings.
“You came in and completely changed the pace of the game on a pitch as he built it, it was a great knock to watch from the other end. I have seen him do this against our team in IPL, against others and in international games, but it was my first experience to see it so closely. [as a batting partner] And I thoroughly enjoyed it,” Kohli said during the chat.
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“I honestly believe that the way you played today, if you can stay in that zone, you can literally change the color of an entire game against any team in the world,” he said.
Suryakumar, who won the player of the match award for his valor, admitted that he too enjoyed batting with Kohli.
“I like to bat with him [Kohli] – when I was in [dressing room]I was talking to Rishabh and how can we take the game ahead as the wicket was a bit sticky. And when I went to bat, I tried to be myself, what I do, what I like to do. It was a really simple plan – in the first 10 balls I wanted to hit 3-4 boundaries and when I got that I just kept on batting.
“That moment I knew I needed you” [Kohli] There, that’s why I told you just bat from one end, later it will be easier for you to cover because I have seen you many times when you bat 30-35 balls, in the next 10 balls you bat Strike-rates of 200 and 250, it was important for me to have you there, so I could bat freely till the 20th over, and I really enjoyed what happened,” Suryakumar said.
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