Mumbai: The flamboyant batsman Suryakumar Yadav of India and Mumbai Indians, who made his international debut against England after a long wait on the sidelines, remembered that he was nervous on this important day, but a simple piece of advice for him led him to brought calm. “Be yourself,” he remembered saying to himself that day.
Yadav made a quick 57 in his second T20 match at Ahmedabad after failing to bat in his debut match, “If you had seen properly, I was very excited at that point. I was not happy at that stage since Rohit (Sharma) climbed out, but when I went to bat, I ran in, so it shows how excited I was, ‘the 30-year-old said in a video by Mumbai Indians on posted their official Twitter tutorial.
Yadav, who has now played three T20 matches, said he recalls his performances at number three while coming out of the dig. “When I dammed up and came to the excavation, I was nervous, and it would have to be that way, if you did not get nervous,”
‘When I went in, everything started running in my mind, which I did when I hit three. I got my answer when I said to myself: ‘Do not do anything else, do the same – be yourself, that’s it’ ‘, the stylish right batsman added. Yadav started this innings with a drop kick from English pacemaker Jofra Archer.
‘… people talk about the six, how do you feel about the first ball after you made India? It was necessary to be a little calm and I knew what Archer was doing in the IPL, how he was getting hard on the batsmen.
“So there was a thought that he (Archer) would bowl that particular ball and good that he bowled the same delivery,” adds Yadav, who has now played 77 first-class matches.
Source: Telangana Today