Suryakumar Yadav in danger! (PC-PTI)
Even though Team India won the T20 World Cup under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav, now he may be wiped out from the team. If reports are to be believed, Suryakumar Yadav is in danger of being dropped from Team India. This danger to Suryakumar has arisen because of his poor form. After T20 World, Surya is not batting in IPL also, his form has left him and the selectors of Team India are keeping an eye on him. In such a situation, a serious question remains whether he will be included in Team India for the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028 or not?
do or die for suryakumar yadav
Suryakumar Yadav will lead Team India on the tour of Ireland and England after IPL. But in the T20 series to be held there, it will not be his captaincy that will be examined but his batting. This tour can decide whether he will play in big tournaments to be held in 2028 or not. These include the Los Angeles Olympics as well as the T20 World Cup which is to be held in Australia-New Zealand. The good thing for Surya is that he remains the first choice of head coach Gautam Gambhir, whose contract can be extended till the next T20 World Cup. However, it will be interesting to see whether the selection committee will agree to this or not because Surya will be 38 years of age at the time of the Olympics.
If Suryakumar fails in batting…
On Suryakumar Yadav, a BCCI source said, ‘Obviously Surya is captaining the team right now, but he also has to ensure that he performs well as a batsman. It is obvious that he will captain England and Ireland but after that, playing till 2028 will depend on his performance. Let us tell you that the year 2025 was very bad for Suryakumar, in which his strike rate fell below 120 and he could not score a single half-century. This situation changed in 2026, when he scored four half-centuries at a good strike rate of more than 160 by the end of the T20 World Cup. However, his bat did not work against big teams. In the semi-final against England, he scored 11 runs and against New Zealand he could not even open the account.
