Suryakumar Yadav: Suryakumar Yadav's name has once again come up in discussions recently. Former captain of the Indian T20 cricket team Suryakumar Yadav was recently seen meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. After this, Surya was also seen meeting India's Home Minister Amit Shah. Suryakumar Yadav had arrived with his family to meet PM Modi and Amit Shah, where his wife Devisha Shetty and his daughter Riddhima were present with him. Now Suryakumar Yadav has again come into discussion with his statement.
Actually, under his captaincy, Suryakumar Yadav made Team India the champion of T20 World Cup 2026. Surya had made India champion for the second consecutive time. After this, he was removed from the captaincy of Team India and was also dropped from the squad of the Indian cricket team. From then till now Suryakumar Yadav is out. Now he has given a statement, due to which he has attracted everyone's attention.
Big statement on removal of Suryakumar Yadav from captaincy
Team India's former world-winning captain Suryakumar Yadav, while speaking openly at the Celebration of Champions program of T-20 Mumbai League held in Mumbai, said, 'The time after winning the T-20 World Cup has been a bit difficult. I don't want to turn my back on this truth. If you are not honest with yourself, it becomes difficult to live a happy life. To be honest, it was very difficult for me to be out of the team, but during the IPL, my daughter was born in May. After this my entire attention went towards her. The last few months after her birth have been very beautiful for me.
🚨 SURYAKUMAR YADAV OPENS UP ABOUT HIS DIFFICULT PHASE. (PTI)
Suryakumar Yadav admitted that things have been difficult for him since the T20 World Cup and said he doesn't want to run away from that reality.
However, his life took a beautiful turn during the IPL when he was…
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Suryakumar Yadav expressed his love for Mumbai
Suryakumar Yadav further said, 'The first two months after IPL were difficult, but then I thought, why not think about the way I was before. How I started my cricket, when I thought that I want to play age-group cricket for Mumbai, I wanted to play first-class cricket for Mumbai, then I said all these things to my wife and she also said the same thing, you have to bring back that love and passion for the game which you had when you were a 15-year-old kid and wanted to represent Mumbai in age-group cricket, so I started talking about this and that is what I follow now. I am doing it. I started training again, following the same passion, the same love for this sport and everything becomes normal.
Suryakumar Yadav talks about journey & tough phase after dropping from T20I team. (Cricinfo)
“The first two months after the IPL were difficult but then I thought, why not think about how I was before – how I started my cricket, when I used to think I wanted to play age-group… pic.twitter.com/kFqErXSbCj
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Suryakumar Yadav has played 113 T20 matches for India. During this period, he scored 3272 runs in 107 innings with 4 centuries and 25 half-centuries. He has also hit 297 fours and 178 sixes in T20 international cricket.
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