“Now I will soon…”, Suryakumar Yadav said on his poor batting after winning the series, also gave statement on Jasprit Bumrah

IND vs SA 5th T20: Under the leadership of Suryakumar Yadav, the Indian cricket team has won the T20 series against South Africa. Last Friday, i.e. on 19th December, the last match of the 5-match series was played between India and South Africa at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Batting first, Team India scored 231 runs on the board. In response to which the Proteas team could score only 201 runs. In this match, Jasprit Bumrah came to bowl very late, Suryakumar Yadav gave a statement after the match regarding this. Also commented on his batting.

Suryakumar Yadav said on the use of Jasprit Bumrah

Suryakumar Yadav gave the ball to Jasprit Bumrah for the first time in the 5th over and then brought him into the attack in the 11th over. In the same over he dismissed Quinton de Kock. When Surya was asked about this in the post match presentation, he said that he brought Bumrah late due to strategy. He said,

“It was the same thing, the kind of cricket we wanted to play, the result is in front of us. This spirited effort was missing till now. Glad we were able to repeat that. We wanted Bumrah to bowl one over in the power play, one over in the middle after the drinks break and then one over at the end.”

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Gave statement on his batting also

As captain, Suryakumar Yadav’s bat is calm, no big innings were seen from him in this series too. However, Surya himself is aware of this. After the match he said that he is going to make a comeback soon. He said,

“We were challenged, but what matters is getting back into the game. It was a good and challenging series, we tried our best. The only thing is that Surya has disappeared somewhere as a batsman. But I will make a strong comeback, as a captain, I am happy with the team’s performance in this series.”

Suryakumar Yadav said, “one thing we couldn’t find Surya the batter, but he will come back strong”.#INDvsSApic.twitter.com/MSI5CIVAYZ

— Nandgopal Kumar (@NandgopalK28724) December 20, 2025

India won by 30 runs

After losing the toss, Team India batted first and scored 231 runs on the board. Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma scored 37 and 34 runs respectively. Tilak Verma contributed 72 runs, while Hardik Pandya played a explosive inning of 63 runs in 25 balls. Quinton de Kock counter-attacked from South Africa and scored 65 runs in 35 balls. But in the middle overs, Varun Chakraborty broke the back of the visiting team by taking 4 wickets.

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