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'He Is A 360-Degree' - Aakash Chopra On What makes Suryakumar Yadav Different In T20Is

image-lpc5jr0lSuryakumar Yadav scored 80 in 1st T20I [X.com]

In his maiden T20I as Team India captain, Suryakumar Yadav starred with the bat against Australia at Visakhapatnam last evening. Yadav scored a whirlwind knock of 80, which included nine fours and four sixes, that helped India reach a mammoth 209-run target.

Batting first Australia, courtesy of Josh Inglis' 50-ball 110, ended up scoring 208 in their 20 overs, which required India to start hitting from the get-go. Yadav added crucial 111 runs with Ishan Kishan and then 40 with Rinku Singh for the third and fifth wicket, respectively. 

Former India opener Aakash Chopra hailed Yadav's knock, whose destructive batting style makes the Mumbai Indians player more dangerous in the shortest format. 

Speaking to Jio Cinema, the former Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) play explained how SKY forces bowlers out of their plans with unconventional hitting. 

The 31-year-old came down heavy against Australian pacers — Jason Behrendorff, Sean Abbott, and Nathan Ellis — taking them each for 19,19 and 25, runs. 

Here's what Chopra said

"He is a 360-degree kind of player who comes in with a reputation that makes bowlers think differently. Plan differently, have rather strange field positions because he makes you do that. He plays with freedom in the shortest format and the pitch that was there was for him to exploit because this is the kind of surface you get 9 out of 10 times in T20Is."


He comes into his own when he is batting in this format and therefore, you always saw that there was a deep fine leg in, there was a mid-on fielder inside the circle. You need those different field positions even though your plans are very different. You can think of bowling a back-of-the-hand slower one, but even while doing so, he can hit you over fine leg for a six. Then he hits you straight."

With a 1-0 lead, the T20I caravan will move to Thiruvananthapuram for the second match of the five-match series.