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‘A captain’s job is not just toss and manage bowlers… your primary role is to score runs’: Aakash Chopra’s scathing words on Suryakumar Yadav’s form | Cricket News

‘A captain’s job is not just toss and manage bowlers… your primary role is to score runs’: Aakash Chopra’s scathing words on Suryakumar Yadav’s form | Cricket News

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With 201 runs in 19 T20Is this year, Indian T20 captain Suryakumar Yadav is not in the best of form in the shortest format of the game. The 35-year-old played a four-ball knock of five runs during India’s 51-run loss against South Africa in the second T20I at Mullanpur on Thursday. It also meant Yadav’s average in T20Is this year dropped to 14.35 in a total of 17 innings and the Indian captain has a strike rate of 126.45 in the format this year. Former Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra sees this as a problem and termed Yadav’s primary role in the team ‘to score runs’. “You are the team’s captain, but a captain’s job is not just to toss and manage the bowlers. It’s not just about making the strategy. If you bat in the top four, your primary role is to score runs. It’s been many matches. If you have an average of 14 in 17 innings and the strike rate is also not very good, you don’t have a single fifty, and have …

Irfan Pathan: ‘Form of captain Suryakumar Yadav and Shubman Gill is real cause of concern for India’ | Cricket News

Irfan Pathan: ‘Form of captain Suryakumar Yadav and Shubman Gill is real cause of concern for India’ | Cricket News

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Former India cricketer Irfan Pathan has said that the form of India captain Suryakumar Yadav and his deputy Shubman Gill is a real cause of concern for India after the Indian cricket team lost the second T20I to South Africa by 51 runs at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur. The scrutiny turned on captain Yadav and his Gill’s runs with the bat with the T20 World Cup approaching in two months’ time. Gill was dismissed for a first ball duck on Thursday at New Chandigarh while Yadav managed five runs from four balls. In the first T20I, Gill had been dismissed for four while the captain could only make 12 with the bat. ALSO READ | India vs South Africa 2nd T20I Highlights: Quinton de Kock shines as SA beat IND by 51 runs in Mullanpur “At the toss, we said it would not be bad for South Africa to bat first. Because they were chasing in the first match and here in New Chandigarh, they batted first which meant you do …

Suryakumar Yadav’s swat-flick against Josh Hazlewood is a shot all his own and bends cricketing logic to his whims | Cricket News

Suryakumar Yadav’s swat-flick against Josh Hazlewood is a shot all his own and bends cricketing logic to his whims | Cricket News

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Josh Hazlewood had Suryakumar Yadav tied up in knots. A short delivery had the India captain contorting his body to avoid it. A back-of-length straightener had beaten him neck and crop. But the third ball he faced in the first T20I, Surya took matters into his own hands. He shuffled across to a delivery that landed a fraction outside off-stump. The front foot moved a smudge across and the back leg dragged back correspondingly to create the base. The movement is antithetical to orthodox cricketing ideals, but in Surya’s world, it’s the most normal manoeuvre. The head is still, the eyes are fixed on the ball, the brain could be computing the angles and spaces in the field, dissected minutely as the ball enters his arc. As is often the case with Surya, everything happened in both a blur and ultra-slow motion. The upper body got down and up with the movement of the ball, like a snake-charmer enticing his pet cobra, before bat met ball on an incline and scooped it to the vacant …

‘Same ball, same mistake, same dismissal’: Ashwin urges Suryakumar Yadav, Sanju Samson to bring better plans after England no-show | Cricket News

‘Same ball, same mistake, same dismissal’: Ashwin urges Suryakumar Yadav, Sanju Samson to bring better plans after England no-show | Cricket News

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Former India spinner R Ashwin has minced no words in his assessment of India’s recent 4-1 victory over England as he expected captain Suryakumar Yadav and wicket-keeper Sanju Samson to come up with better plans to avoid a recurring pattern of dismissals. While Samson gathered 51 runs in five innings and fell to the short-ball tactic employed by the England seamers on all five outings, Suryakumar’s dismal batting performance ended with 28 runs, including two ducks. As the pull troubled Samson, Suryakumar fell prey to his trademark flick shot in the series against the English quicks. Ashwin has urged that the Mumbaikar must realise the time has come to mark some changes in his batting. “The problem though, however, is Suryakumar’s batting. Of course, his captaincy has been really good in this series. His captaincy has been on point, too. But he can allow his batting some much-needed breathing space. Sanju Samson and SKY getting out to the same ball, same field, same shot, same mistake, same dismissal,” Ashwin said on his YouTube channel ‘Ash …