ADELAIDE, Australia — India coach
Rahul Dravid labeled Suryakumar Yadav “absolutely phenomenal” after the top-ranked
T20 batsman powered them into a World Cup semifinal clash with England.
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Yadav’s unbeaten 61 off 25 balls on Sunday steered
India to 186–5 against Zimbabwe in Melbourne and an emphatic 71-run win in
their final group match.
India’s star batsman
Virat Kohli has top-scored at
this World Cup with 246 runs so far. Yadav is just behind with 225.
“It’s incredible,” Dravid said of Yadav, who has a
strike rate of 179.63 and averages over 42 in 39 T20 matches since his India
debut last year.
“That’s why he is the number one T20 player in the
world at the moment ... it’s not easy to be consistent with the kind of strike
rate he’s going at.”
Yadav, 32, rose to prominence with his pyrotechnics
for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League and soon made it to the Indian
team.
Fondly called SKY, he has smashed 12 half-centuries
and one ton since his first T20I, against England in March last year, and has
become India’s go-to performer in the middle order.
“If I look at Surya from a couple of years ago, just
to see how he takes care of his body and the amount of time he spends on his
fitness, I think he’s just really earning the reward for a lot of the hard work
that he’s put in,” said Dravid.
Ice-cool Yadav has England in his sights next in Thursday’s
semifinal at the Adelaide Oval.
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