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Suryakumar Yadav

Suryakumar in 2018

Personal information

Full name Suryakumar Ashok Yadav

Born 14 September 1990 (age 33)

Bombay, Maharashtra, India

Nickname SKY, Mr.360

Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)

Batting Right-handed

Bowling Right-arm off break

Role Batter

International information

 India (2021–present)
National side

Only Test (cap 304) 9 February 2023 v Australia

ODI debut (cap 236) 18 July 2021 v Sri Lanka

Last ODI 19 November 2023 v Australia

ODI shirt no. 63

T20I debut (cap 85) 14 March 2021 v England

Last T20I 14 December 2023 v South Africa

T20I shirt no. 63

Domestic team information

Years Team

2009–present Parsi Gymkhana club (squad no. 63)

2010–present Mumbai

2012–13, 2018–present Mumbai Indians (squad no. 63 (formerly 77))

2014–17 Kolkata Knight Riders (squad no. 212)

Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I Test T20
Matches 37 59 1 270
Runs scored 773 2141 8 6969
Batting average 25.76 47.34 8.00 35.55
100s/50s 0/4 4/17 0/0 5/46
Top score 72* 117 8 117
Balls bowled 12 – – 132
 Wickets 0 – – 6
Bowling average – - – 23.33
5 wickets in – – – 0
innings
10 wickets in – – – 0
match
Best bowling – – – 2/11
Catches/stumpings 17/– 37/– –/– 136/–

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Medal record

Men's Cricket
Representing India
ICC Cricket World Cup
Runner-up 2023 India
ACC Asia Cup
Winner 2023 Pakistan and Sri Lanka
Kolkata Knight Riders
Indian Premier League
Winner 2014 Indian Premier League
Mumbai Indians
Indian Premier League
Winner 2019 Indian Premier League
Winner 2020 Indian Premier League

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 10 January 2024

Suryakumar Yadav (born 14 September 1990) is an Indian international cricketer.

He plays as a right-handed middle-order batter and is an occasional right-arm off
break bowler. He represents the Indian cricket team and plays for Mumbai in
domestic first-class cricket. Suryakumar was a member of the Indian team that
finshed runners-up in the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup. He plays for Mumbai
Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

In 2009, Suryakumar started playing club cricket in Mumbai before he was selected
for the Mumbai cricket team. He made his List A debut for Mumbai in February 2010
before making his first class and T20 debut in the same year. In March 2021, he
made his T20I debut for India and later made his ODI debut in July. Suryakumar has
played mainly limited overs cricket for India and played his lone test match in
February 2023. As of December 2023, he has scored 2141 runs in 60 matches at an
average of over 45 in T20Is and is the top ranked batter in the ICC men's player
rankings. He is also one of the only three batters to score four centuries in T20Is.
Suryakumar has captained Mumbai in domestic cricket and also served as the Indian
captain for seven T20Is in 2023.

Early and personal life[edit]

Suryakumar Yadav was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) on the 14 September 1990.
[1]
His parents were from Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh.[2] Suryakumar did his schooling
at Atomic Energy Central School in Mumbai and graduated with a B.Com from Pillai
College in Mumbai.[3][4] He started playing cricket under the guidance of his paternal
uncle Vinod Kumar Yadav in Varanasi.[4] At the age of 10, he was enrolled in a cricket
camp at BARC colony in Mumbai, coached by Ashok Kamat.[4] He then went to Elf
Vengsarkar Academy, run by former international cricketer Dilip Vengsarkar and
played age-group cricket in Mumbai.[5][6]

On 7 July 2017, Suryakumar married Devisha Shetty, whom he first met in 2010 at a
college program. Devisha is a trained dancer and a dance coach.[7]

Early career[edit]
Suryakumar played club cricket in Mumbai, mostly for Parsi Gymkhana Cricket Club,
along with teams including Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited team, Shivaji Park
Gymkhana Club and Dadar Union Club.[8][9] Suryakumar made his debut
for Mumbai against Gujarat in a List A match February 2010.[1][4] He made
his T20 debut against Hyderabad next month and first class debut later
against Delhi in December 2010.[1]

International career[edit]
In February 2021, Suryakumar was named in the Indian Twenty20
International (T20I) squad for their home series against England.[10] He made
his T20I debut for India on 14 March 2021 in the second match of the series
at Ahmedabad but did not bat.[11] On 18 March, he played his first innings in the fourth
game of the series and hit the first ball he faced in international cricket for a six,
becoming the first Indian to do so in T20Is.[12] He went on to score a half-century in
the match and was praised by then Indian captain Virat Kohli for the performance.[13]
[14]
Subsequently, he was named in India's ODI squad for their series against
England.[15] In June 2021, he was named in India's limited overs squads for
their series against Sri Lanka.[16] He made his ODI debut on 18 July 2021 in the first
match of the series at Colombo.[17] On 21 July 2021, Yadav scored his maiden ODI
fifty against Sri Lanka.[18]

In July 2021, Suryakumar was called up as a replacement to India's test squad for
their away series against England, but did not play a match.[19] In September 2021, he
was named in India's squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.[20] He scored 31
runs across two innings three matches in the world cup.[21] In November, he was
named in the Indian test squad for their home series against New Zealand, but did
not get a game.[22] He played three T20Is against New Zealand, scoring 63 runs
across three innings including a half-century and a duck.[21] In February 2022,
Suryakumar was part of both the limited overs squads for the home
series against West Indies and made his come-back into the ODI team in the series.
[23]

In June 2022, he was named in India's squad for their T20I

series against Ireland and the subsequent away series against England.[24] In July
2022, Suryakumar scored his maiden T20I century against England at Trent Bridge,
scoring 117 off 55 balls and becoming only the fifth Indian player to score a century
in T20I and only the second to reach the mark batting fourth or lower.[25][26] In August
2022, he played in the 2022 Asia Cup T20I competition and scored 139 runs across
five innings.[27] Later, he played in the T20I home series against Australia and South
Africa.[21] In October 2022, he became the fastest to score 1000 runs in T20Is in terms
of balls faced, reaching the mark in 573 balls in the series against South Africa.[28] On
30 October 2022, Suryakumar was ranked first in the ICC men's player rankings for
T20I batsmen.[29][30]

Suryakumar while playing for India in 2023

In October 2022, Suryakumar played in the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World
Cup in Australia where he was the third highest run-getter with 239 runs across six
innings.[31] On 27 October 2022, he scored the fourth fastest half-century by an Indian
batsman at a T20 World Cup, reaching the mark in 25 balls
against Netherlands at Sydney.[32][33] In November 2022, Suryakumar scored his
second T20I century against New Zealand at Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui scoring
111* off 51 balls including 11 fours and 7 sixes and became the second Indian to
score two centuries in T20Is in a calendar year after Rohit Sharma.[34][35] Suryakumar
won the ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Year award for his performance in 2022.
[36]
In January 2023, he scored the second fastest century by an Indian batter in T20Is
and the third of his career, reaching the mark in 45 balls against Sri Lanka at Rajkot.
[37][38]
He played in both ODIs and T20Is in the home series against New Zealand in
January-February 2023, scoring 142 runs across five innings.[21][23]

On 9 February 2023, he made his test debut against Australia at Nagpur, which has
been his only test match as of January 2024.[39] In the subsequent ODI series, when
he got out on the first ball he faced in the third match at Chennai, he registered his
third consecutive golden duck, being the only Indian to do so.[40] In August 2023,
Suryakumar was appointed as the vice-captain of the Indian team for the T20I away
series against West Indies.[41] He scored 166 runs across four innings including 83
runs off 44 balls in the third match.[42] He was part the Indian squad that won the 2023
Asia Cup but played a lone game in the loss against Bangladesh.[43][44] Later, he was
named in the Indian squad for the 2023 Cricket World Cup in India. He scored just
106 runs across seven innings in the world cup, where India finished as runners-up.
[45]
After the World cup, Suryakumar was named as the captain of the Indian team for
the T20I series against Australia. He scored 144 runs in five innings and led the
team to a 4-1 series victory.[21][46] He was named as captain for the subsequent tour of
South Africa.[47] In the series, he scored the fourth T20I century of his career, equaling
Rohit Sharma and Glenn Maxwell for the record of most centuries in T20Is.[48]

Domestic career[edit]
 Surya playing for Mumbai in 2018
Mumbai[edit]
Suryakumar represented Mumbai in domestic cricket. He captained the team for a
brief period during the 2014–15 Ranji Trophy season and was again appointed as
captain for 2019-20 season.[49][50] He also captained the team in the 2020–21 Syed
Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 tournament.[51][52] In October 2019, he was named in the India
C squad for the 2019–20 Deodhar Trophy.[53] He continued to play club cricket for
Parsi Gymkhana club and scored 249 runs in final against Payyade Sports Club in
'Police Shield' tournament in 2021, winning the "Best Batsman of the Final" award
and helping Parsi Gymkhana to win the tournament for the first time since 1956. [8][54]

Indian Premier League[edit]

Suryakumar with Kolkata Knight Riders in 2017

Suryakumar was part of the Mumbai Indians (MI) team for the Indian Premier
League (IPL) 2012 season where he played just one match and was dismissed
without scoring.[55] In the 2014 IPL auction, he was bought by Kolkata Knight
Riders (KKR).[56] He won the title with KKR in the first season in the 2014. He scored
608 runs in 54 matches across four seasons for KKR.[57][58]

In 2018 IPL auctions, he was bought by Mumbai Indians for a price of ₹3.2
crore (US$400,000).[59] He was prolific for Mumbai, scoring more than 1400 runs in
three seasons and winning the title in 2019 and 2020 seasons.[58][57] He was retained
by Mumbai ahead of the 2022 auction for ₹8 crore (US$1.0 million). However, he
was ruled out of the initial part of 2022 season due to injury and scored 303 runs in
eight matches at an average of more than 43 on his return.[60] In the 2023 season, he
was appointed as the vice-captain of the side.[61] In the 2023 season, he had a prolific
season with the bat scoring 605 runs in 16 matches including his maiden IPL century
against Gujarat Titans on 12 May 2023.[62][58]

Playing style[edit]
Suryakumar is a hard hitting lower middle-order batter. He has a tendency to go all-
out from the first ball, rather than take time to settle at the crease.[63] He plays a wide
range of shots and all around the ground on both off and leg sides. He is often called
Mr.360 for his range of shots including scoops over fine leg.[63][9]
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