On Monday Mumbai Indians (MI) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) faced each other for yet another time but this time Mumbai Indians thrashed Sunrisers Hyderabad by 7 wickets and achieved the target of 174. Despite a slow start Suryakumar Yadav smashed a glorious century and played an unbeaten innings of 102 runs in 51 balls. He was adjourned as Player of the Match.
Suryakumar Yadav lauds his innings
In a post-match presentation, Suryakumar Yadav mentioned that he played such a long innings after many months, later he also mentioned the dew and how the match was in a fuss after losing 3 wickets in powerplay. Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper Pat Cummins was bowling pretty well after facing some balls he took Pat Cummins on a charge and smashed him two boundaries.
“I’ve been doing this for a very long time. I think after the 14th of December, today is the day where I fielded for 20 overs and batted for almost 18 overs. So, it is a little bit tiring, but hopefully tomorrow it will be better. I feel that it was the need of the hour today, three wickets down when I came in and someone had to be there till the end, and that is what I did,”
“I knew that the dew was heavy, and once the seam goes off, it will be easy for a batter to play, so I just enjoyed my time. I played a lot of first-class cricket for Mumbai and a lot of games at the Wankhede, I know what’s the right option when the ball is seaming. When the ball stopped seaming, I played all my shots which I practice in the nets,” Suryakumar Yadav added.
The last Suryakumar Yadav had played for India was in December when he led India in South Africa and while fielding he suffered an injury and was ruled out for 2-3 months. His current form will help India to score runs in the USA and West Indies for the upcoming T20 World Cup.