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Suryakumar Yadav’s caller thin spot has not shaken his self-belief.
The 35-year-old — who volition play his 100th T20I erstwhile helium leads the Indian broadside successful the archetypal T20I against New Zealand — was his joyous aforesaid portion fielding pointed questions astir his dwindling returns.
When asked however helium was moving connected his crippled ‘behind the curtains’, a tongue-in-cheek reply ensued: “Parde ke peeche tho nahin kiya mein. Khula crushed hee tha. Udar hee batting karne gaya tha. (I did not bat down the curtain. I batted successful an unfastened crushed itself),” Suryakumar said, evoking chuckles crossed the property league hallway astatine the VCA Stadium.
“I’ve been abbreviated of runs. But I can’t alteration my identity. I person decided to support doing what I person been doing successful the past 3 oregon 4 years, which has fixed maine a batch of success,” Suryakumar said.
The skipper conveyed that his absorption was connected India’s show successful the five-match bid and the upcoming T20 World Cup, and not his idiosyncratic numbers.
“If I were playing a singles athletics similar array tennis oregon tract tennis, I would person fixed much thought to it. This is simply a squad sport, and my archetypal work is to cognize however the squad is doing. I’m blessed if I execute successful the team’s victory. If not, it doesn’t matter, arsenic it tin happen. I person to look aft the different 14 players also, arsenic I’ve been appointed arsenic the person of everyone,” helium explained.
Suryakumar was speedy to constituent retired that the Test and ODI bid losses to New Zealand are history, and that India has been doing exceptionally good successful the shortest format.
“The Test bid nonaccomplishment was agelong back. The T20Is are astir to start, and we’ll speech astir that. We’ve been playing this format well. There volition beryllium pressure, but where’s the amusive successful playing if determination is nary pressure?”
