Suryakumar Yadav

Suryakumar Yadav : Suryakumar Yadav, also known as SKY , Hard-hitting 360-degree batter Suryakumar Yadav has all the shots, including a few not in any textbook save the one written by AB de Villiers. As showed by his four outstanding years with the Mumbai Indians started in 2018, when they won the IPL title twice, thanks in no small part his 1700+ runs at a strike rate of about 140, he also has an ability for making batting look easy.

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Suryakumar Early Life and Background

Suryakumar Ashok Yadav was born in Bombay Maharashtra India on 14 September 1990 and His family comes from the Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh and After graduating from Bombay’s Atomic Energy Central School he earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Pillai College and In Varanasi Yadav started playing cricket at a young age under the guidance of Vinod Kumar Yadav his paternal uncle.

At the age of ten he enrolled in a cricket camp at BARC Colony in Mumbai where Ashok Kamat served as his coach and He later joined the Elf Vengsarkar Academy coached by former international cricketer Dilip Vengsarkar and played age group cricket in Mumbai.

Suryakumar Domestic Career

Yadav made his List A debut for the Mumbai cricket team against Gujarat in February 2010 and He made his T20 debut against Hyderabad and his first class debut against Delhi later that year demonstrating his rapid progress and During the 2011-12 Ranji Trophy season he was a standout player for Mumbai amassing 754 runs at an astounding average of over 68 and Among those totals were a century in the following game and a double century against Orissa in his third of the season.

Because of his reliable performances he was regarded as one of the top domestic cricket players and In the ensuing seasons Yadav continued to be successful finishing in the top run scorers in several tournaments such as the Ranji Trophy and the Vijay Hazare Trophy and He temporarily captained the Mumbai team during the 2014–15 Ranji Trophy season and guided them to victory in the 2015–16 Ranji Trophy.

He finished the season with another century in the Duleep Trophy and After suffering an injury in 2012–13 he returned to the running in the following season helping Mumbai place in the top three.

Suryakumar International Career

Yadav made his T20 International and One Day International (ODI) debuts for India in March and July of 2021 respectively and In Twenty20 Internationals he performed brilliantly and became well known for his aggressive batting style and rapid scoring and With more than 75% of his total runs coming from T20 International matches he has scored over 3000 runs and four hundreds in international cricket as of 2024.

He was ranked first in the ICC men T20I player rankings from October 2022 to June 2024 and he was named the ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year twice in 2022 and 2023 and In November 2023 Rohit Sharma was named captain of the Indian national team after announcing his retirement from T20 Internationals.

Suryakumar Yadav in IPL

One of T20 cricket’s most creative and explosive hitters, Suryakumar Yadav, or SKY, is compared to AB de Villiers due to his 360-degree hitting range and In 2012 and 2013, SKY was a member of the MI team, but he played only one game , in which he was dismissed for a duck

SKY was acquired by the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in 2014 but they failed to develop him to his full potential and in his four years with the team he never scored more than 200 runs in an IPL season.

In the 2018 IPL auction MI bought SKY once more and He had a fantastic season scoring 512 runs at a strike rate of 133.33.

SKY has since made a name for himself as a formidable threat at number three and His best IPL season was in 2023 when he amassed 605 runs at a strike rate of 181.14 and He won two titles with MI in 2019 and 2020.

Achievements

Yadav’s achievements :

with the Mumbai Indians in 2019 and 2020 and with the Kolkata Knight Riders in 2014 winning two Indian Premier League (IPL) championships.

being chosen for the ICC Men T20I Team of the Year in 2022 and 2023.

leading India to wins in the 2024 20-20 World Cup and the 2023 Asia Cup.

Scoring four T20I centuries, the second most by any male batter.

Personal Life

on July 7, 2016, Suryakumar Yadav wed Devisha Shetty. Devisha is a trained dancer and dance coach, and met in 2010 while enrolled in a college program. With consistent performances in all formats and a major contribution to domestic cricket, Suryakumar Yadav has made a name for himself as one of India’s best players.

Suryakumar Yadav Career Stats

surya kumar Batting & Fielding

Format	Match	Inns	Runs	HS	Ave	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	1	1	8	8	8.00	40.00	0	0	1	0	0
ODIs	37	35	773	72*	25.76	105.02	0	4	80	19	17
T20Is	83	79	2598	117	38.20	167.07	4	21	237	146	50
FC	84	140	5656	200	42.84	63.77	14	29	803	58	107
List A	144	130	3665	134*	32.72	104.11	3	21	362	108	78
T20s	309	285	7903	117	34.06	152.12	6	54	790	342	155

Bowling

Format	Matches	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Ave	Econ	SR
Tests	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
ODIs	37	1	12	17	0	–	–	8.50	–
T20Is	83	1	6	5	2	2/5	2.50	5.00	3.0
FC	84	50	1154	550	24	4/47	22.91	2.85	48.0
List A	144	18	442	395	6	2/20	65.83	5.36	73.6
T20s	309	11	138	145	8	2/5	18.12	6.30	17.2