Ahead of their final match of the season against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in Mumbai, Mumbai Indians (MI) star middle order batter Suryakumar Yadav talked about finding a balanced approach in life after facing ups and downs in the last 15 or so months. Surya achieved everything a batter can in T20 cricket, hitting 3 tons and striking the ball at over 175 in his T20I career, but struggled in the Test and ODI arenas, and therefore said he looked for balance in life amid success and failure. Follow IPL 2023 LIVE updates with InsideSport.IN
In ICC rankings, Surya with 906 points is way ahead of Pakistan’s Mohammed Rizwan (811) among international T20 batters before he got a rude reality check during the home ODI and Test series against Australia.
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Suryakumar Yadav on finding the right balance in life
“I feel it’s very important to have that balance in life. That’s what I have learnt from last year and this. Last year was full of highs. This year, it started the way I wanted it to start but then suddenly, (there were) three-four ducks in four-five games,” Suryakumar told the media here on Saturday ahead of MI’s must-win IPL game against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
He had learnt to take things in stride and also have a little perspective of how things can pan out.
“I realised that if you create that balance in your life… whether you are doing well or not. It’s difficult because it’s human tendency. It’s very easy to say that you have to balance it out, stay grounded. It’s very easy. But to implement that in real life is difficult,” he sounded a touch philosophical.
“If you create that balance, stay the same with your friends and family when you are scoring runs as you are when you are not scoring runs, then it actually reflects in the game,” he added.
On finding his form and pressure to perform
Surya had a poor first four games before he found his rhythm to get to 486 runs from 13 games at a healthy strike-rate of 186 plus and a century against Gujarat Titans that will be remembered for a long time to come.
“I have felt it during the last month. At the start of the IPL, I started thinking: ‘where are my runs!’ But then I started doing the same things which helped me do well last year and everything came back to place,” Suryakumar said.
Surya said pressure has always been there irrespective of scoring runs or not.
“The pressure is always there. Whether I am getting runs or not getting runs, I always feel the pressure. If someone says there is no pressure, he is lying. It’s good to have that pressure and butterflies when you are going into bat. That’s how you overcome it and become a better cricketer,” he said.
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