Suryakumar Yadav’s speedy half-century led India to a six-wicket win over Australia with one ball remaining of their Twenty20 decider for a 2-1 sequence victory.
Nevertheless, in a post-match chat with spinner Axar Patel, Suryakumar revealed that he needed to battle a abdomen ache and fever within the night time earlier than the sport because the medical staff labored furiously to get him match earlier than the series-decider at Hyderabad.
It was Axar who recalled how he was woken up within the wee hours of Sunday morning by a commotion close to the physio room and was knowledgeable that Suryakumar was being handled after complaints of abdomen ache and fever.
“Really, you (Axar) had been additionally dealing with this drawback. I acquired to know this in the course of the staff assembly,” Suryakumar was quoted as saying in a video posted by BCCI on their official web site.
“There was just a little situation. The climate modified and now we have now began travelling as nicely. So I had a abdomen ache after which fever,” he mentioned.
However not among the many ones to again down the 32-year-old mentioned,” “I knew this one is the decider. So I instructed my physician and physio, ‘If this may’ve been the world cup last, then how will I react? I can’t sit like this.’ So I instructed them, ‘do something – give me any drugs, injection – do all the pieces you possibly can to get me match for the sport.”
“(And) upon getting worn the jersey and are on the bottom then the emotion is completely different,” he concluded.
Suryakumar smacked 69 off 36 balls and placed on 104 runs with Virat Kohli off 62 deliveries as India reached the goal in 19.5 overs.