Team India head coach Rahul Dravid hailed Suryakumar Yadav`s scintillating unbeaten 112-run knock against Sri Lanka in the T20 series decider here, and jokingly said that the 32-year-old batter had “never seen him bat” when he was a young kid.
“I have someone here with me, who I am sure, as a young kid, didn`t watch me bat. And I hope you did,” Dravid said in a video posted by BCCI.tv. To which the star batter replied, “I did”.
SKY finished an unbeaten 51-ball century laced with nine sixes and seven maximums in his match-winning knock, the second-fastest ton in men`s T20Is by an Indian batter following Rohit Sharma`s 35-ball effort against the same opposition country back in 2017, helped India beat Sri Lanka by 91-runs in the third and final T20 to clinch an impressive 2-1 series win over Island nation.
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Dravid further asked SKY, “Surya, exceptional. The form that you have been in – every time I think I have not seen a better T20 innings, you show us something even better. Of all these innings that you have played over the last year that I have had the privilege of watching and enjoying, can you pick one or two that is the best?”
Suryakumar replied: “Actually, I enjoyed batting in all the difficult situations where I went into bat. I actually can`t pick any one innings. It is actually difficult for me to pick any one innings. I just enjoyed myself, whatever I did in the last one year. I have been doing the same thing again. As I said before as well, I just try and enjoy and express myself as much as possible. In those difficult situations, teams try to pull the game off. I try to take the game on. If it works well for me and the team, I`m happy.”
SKY`s unbeaten ton in Rajkot was his third in the T20 International in seven months, making him the first player in history to score three T20I centuries as a middle-order batter.
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