Suryakumar Yadav Should Bat At Number 4 For India
Suryakumar Yadav Should Bat At Number 4 For India: The most successful Australian captain of all time, and one of the best batters to have ever graced the game, Ricky Ponting, gave his vote of confidence to Surya Kumar Yadav.
“He is a very, very exciting player. And I am sure someone that is going to find himself in their team, not just their squad,” Ponting said.
Ponting stated that Yadav should easily make it to the first XI of the Indian team. He emphasized Yadav’s confidence that sets him apart.
“I think you would find him in their team for the T20 World Cup. And if he is in that team, then I think all the fans in Australia are going to see a very, very good player,” he said.
“He is quite a confident person. He backs himself. And he is never going to step down from a challenge or any situation that arises in a game. I feel he thinks he can win that situation and therefore go on and win the game for his team,” Ponting added.
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting believes Suryakumar Yadav should play at No.4 for India in Twenty20 Internationals. He compared him to South Africa’s legend AB de Villiers.
“Surya scores 360 degrees around the ground, a bit like an AB de Villiers did when he was in his actual prime. The lap shots, the late cuts, you know, the ramps over the keeper’s head. He can hit down the ground,” Ponting said backing on his observation.
“He hits really well over the leg side, flicks to deep backward square particularly well. And he is a good player of fast bowling and is a good player of spin bowling,” he added.
India has not fixed a batting line-up. Yadav keeps floating up and down in the top four positions.
“For Surya, it is one, two, or four. I think he can open, but I think he is probably, you know if you could probably just keep him away from the new ball, let him control the middle part of the game outside the Powerplay, through in the middle, and if he is in at the end, you know what can happen,” he said.
“I think in the top four is, well, actually I will go out on a limb. I do not want him to open. I think number four is his best spot,” Ponting declared.
The former New Zealand all-rounder Scott Styris also talked about Surya Kumar Yadav’s batting skills. Scott Styris said that Surya Kumar is not a conventional batter. His go-to shots are necessarily straight down the ground or square of the wicket. Styris observed that Yadav hits the ball over extra cover and over fine leg behind the keeper. This is the reason which is why the opposition captain is not able to set a conventional field against him.