Dubai. Suryakumar Yadav has once shown with his batting that why he is called a 360 degree batsman. He played a strong innings against Hong Kong in a match of T20 Asia Cup (Asia Cup 2022). He scored 68 runs in 26 balls in the match (IND vs HK). The strike rate was 262. During this he hit 6 fours and 6 sixes. That is, scored 60 runs from the boundary only. Due to this, Team India was able to make a huge score of 192 runs in the match. In reply, Hong Kong’s team could only score 152 runs. In this way, the Indian team won the match by 40 runs and made it to the Super-4. The team won their first match over Pakistan by 5 wickets.
After the Indian innings, Virat Kohli bowed and saluted Suryakumar after seeing his brilliant innings. Suryakumar had scored 26 runs including 4 sixes in the 20th over. Apart from this, Virat Kohli also played a half-century innings. He scored 59 runs off 44 balls. He scored a half-century in international cricket after 6 months. The strike rate was of 134. Hit another 3 sixes. Kohli and Suryakumar added 98 runs in 7 overs. Team scored 78 runs in last 5 overs
Sixth fifty of T20 career
31-year-old Suryakumar Yadav has consistently performed brilliantly in T20 Internationals. He has so far scored 758 runs in 23 innings of 25 T20 Internationals at an average of 40. Has scored one century and 6 half-centuries. Best innings played by 117 runs. The strike rate is 178, which is excellent. He has scored 4913 runs in 196 innings of overall T20 at an average of 32. He has scored one century and 29 half-centuries. Hit 180 sixes.