Suryakumar Yadav’s poor run of kind during the last 18 months has shocked Australian nice Ricky Ponting, who believes the Indian skipper ought to take into consideration scoring runs and never getting out within the lead as much as the T20 World Cup.
Ranked world no 1 not so way back, Suryakumar spent a torrid time within the shortest format in 2025 managing a mere 218 runs in 21 matches (19 innings) at 13.62 and a strike price of 123.16, which stays a priority for the defending champions forward of subsequent month’s T20 World Cup.
Speaking about Suryakumar’s kind, Ponting advised the ICC Evaluate, “That’s as large a shock for me, simply taking a look at his current kind. He’s been such a stable and constant contributor for India in T20 cricket for a very long time and simply hasn’t been capable of finding it of late.” “He’s an attention-grabbing one as a result of after I’ve seen him play his finest, he’s taken six or eight or 10 balls to get going after which simply lets all of it go.” “He performs all of his photographs and backs himself and a bit like Travis Head the place it nearly appears to be like like they don’t ever concern getting out,” he mentioned.
Ponting mentioned he would recommendation Suryakumar to give attention to scoring his runs and never take into consideration getting out.
“That’s what I’d say to him. I’d be saying, take into consideration scoring runs, don’t take into consideration getting out. Belief your self, again your self. You’re confirmed to be nearly as good as anyone on the planet within the T20 format and go and show it to everyone as soon as once more,” he mentioned.
The previous Australian skipper additionally expressed his shock on the exclusion of Shubman Gill, who was India’s vice-captain till the penultimate sequence in build-up to the World Cup.
“Yeah, I couldn’t consider that. I do know his current kind hasn’t been nice in white-ball cricket. And the final time that I actually noticed a lot of him play was the Check sequence towards England within the UK the place he batted in addition to I’ve ever seen anyone bat,” he mentioned.
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“I imply one, I’m shocked, however two, it simply reveals the depth of Indian cricket. In the event you can suppose that somebody nearly as good as Shubman Gill doesn’t get picked in a World Cup squad, then it goes to point out what number of good gamers they do have,” Ponting added.
Ponting mentioned Axar Patel, India’s vice-captain for the World Cup, can be their go-to man within the 20-team occasion beginning on February 7.
“I imply really Patel’s been their go-to man actually hasn’t he? The previous few sequence he’s been their pinch hitter at totally different instances. They’ve batted him up the order at quantity three,” he mentioned.
“Once they’ve wanted that left hand proper hand mixture he’s been the person to exit and try to do it for them and he’s clearly ever constant along with his left-arm off spin as effectively,” Ponting added.