India’s explosive middle-order batter Suryakumar Yadav has been awarded the best T20I Player of the Year award. The star batter was in phenomenal form in 2023, striking at almost 150 and averaging mostly 50 in the shortest format of the game. Needless to say, as SKY recovers from his injury, he will be an instrumental part of India’s T20 World Cup 2024 squad.
SKY is ICC’s T20I player of the year
In 17 innings, Yadav has scored 733 runs at an average of 48.86 at a strike rate of 155.95. Apart from the series against West Indies and Sri Lanka in 2023.
Apart from the series against West Indies and Sri Lanka in 2023, Suryakumar made half-centuries against Australia (80 off 42 balls) and South Africa (56 from 36 balls), before posting an even 100 against the Proteas off just 56 balls in their final T20I of the year in Johannesburg.
SKY’s 112 off 51 balls against Sri Lanka in January included nine sixes and seven fours, equating to almost a boundary every three deliveries. The effort was the second-fastest hundred for India in men’s T20Is behind Rohit Sharma’s 35-ball effort against the same opponent in 2017, and India were clear 91-run winners.
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