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Melbourne: Suryakumar Yadav’s scoop shot on the ball of Zimbabwe pacer Richard Nagarwa has been a topic of discussion in the T20 World Cup 2022 and this aggressive Indian batsman said that he played this ball while playing with a rubber ball. The specific shot was mastered. Suryakumar enthralled 82,000 spectators with his varied strokes at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.
He played an unbeaten 61 off 25 balls as India posted a strong total of 186 for five. The 32-year-old batsman had hit four sixes and six fours in his innings. His one shot on the last ball of the innings was distinctive. He scooped a full toss outside off-stump Richard Nagarwa on his knee and sent it for six runs. Former players like Ravi Shastri and Sunil Gavaskar praised his effort.
Surya Kumar, the world number one batsman in T20, said in a Star Sports program, “You have to understand which ball the bowler is going to bowl at that time which is predetermined to some extent at that time. I practiced this shot a lot while playing rubber ball cricket.
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“So you have to know what the bowler is thinking at that time. Then I trust myself. You know how far the boundary line is. When I am at the crease, I feel that it is only 60-65 meters away and I try to time the shot by sensing the speed of the ball. I try to get the ball to the sweet spot of the bat and if it hits well, it goes outside the boundary line.”
Suryakumar also talked about how he deals with pressure situations. “When I go out to bat, I try to hit some boundaries and if I can’t do that, I try to run fast between the wickets and try to score as many runs as possible. If you are batting with Virat bhai then you have to steal runs fast.
Suryakumar said, “I try to do that and try to score runs quickly by playing shots in the empty spaces. But I know what kind of shots I need to play at that time. I play sweeps, over covers and cut shots and if I am successful in that then I move on from there. (agency)
