Suryakumar Yadav broke Virat’s record. (Photo- PTI)
Suryakumar Yadav: In the last match of the five-match T20 series, the teams of India and New Zealand faced each other at the Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram. In this match, Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav not only led the team to a strong score by playing a tremendous captaincy innings but also made a big record in his name. This series was very good for him, he scored a lot of runs, due to which he managed to break a big record of Virat Kohli.
Suryakumar Yadav broke Virat’s record
In this match, after winning the toss, Team India came to bat first and scored a huge score of 271 runs in 20 overs. Suryakumar Yadav played an important role in this. He scored 63 runs in just 30 balls, which included 4 fours and 6 sixes. His explosive innings came in the middle overs, where he completely destroyed the New Zealand bowlers. Along with Ishan Kishan, he maintained a high run rate and contributed significantly in taking the team to a big total.
Before this series, many questions were being raised on Suryakumar’s form. His bat was silent for many matches, but he made a great comeback in this series. In five innings he scored a total of 242 runs by scoring 3 half-centuries. With this he became the Indian captain who scored the most runs in a T20 series. With this achievement, Suryakumar broke the record of Virat Kohli. Virat had scored 231 runs against England in 2021, which was the best performance so far. Suryakumar’s 242 runs are now at the top of this list. Earlier, Virat Kohli had also scored 181 runs against West Indies in 2019.
Memorable series for Suryakumar Yadav
Suryakumar Yadav started this series with an inning of 32 runs. After this, he led the team to victory by scoring unbeaten 82 runs in the second match. He remained unbeaten in the third match also and scored 57 runs. But in the fourth match he could score only 8 runs. However, in this match he once again played a stormy innings. In this series, a total of 25 fours and 14 sixes were seen from the bat of Suryakumar Yadav, which is much more than the other players. He was also the batsman who scored the most runs in this series.