Suryakumar Yadav

Lore & Background

Yadav started playing club cricket in Mumbai before he was selected for the Mumbai cricket team. He made his List A debut for Mumbai in February 2010 before making his first-class and T20 debut in the same year. In March 2021, he made his T20I debut and later made his ODI debut in July of the same year. He has mainly played limited-overs cricket for India, having played his only Test match in February 2023. He was named as the captain of the Indian team for first time in November 2023 and was re-appointed as the captain of the Indian T20I team in July 2024 after the previous captain Rohit Sharma announced his retirement from T20Is. As of August 2024, Yadav has scored more than 3,000 runs in international cricket with four centuries. More than 75% of his career runs and all of his centuries have come from T20I matches. His four T20I centuries are the second most by any batter. He held the top ranking in the ICC men's player rankings for T20Is from October 2022 to June 2024. He won the ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Year award in 2022 and 2023, and was also named in the ICC Men's T20I Team of the Year in 2022 and 2023. Yadav plays for Mumbai in the Indian domestic cricket, which he has captained in the past. He plays for Mumbai Indians and has previously played for Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League, and has won one title with Kolkata in 2014 and two with Mumbai, in 2019 and 2020.

Reader's Guide

Suryakumar Yadav is a right-handed batter known for his aggressive stroke play in limited-overs cricket. He primarily bats in the middle order for India and Mumbai Indians. His strength lies in his 360-degree shot-making, especially against pace and spin. He is a reliable fielder, often patrolling the boundary or in the inner ring.

Did You Know?

• He hit the first ball he faced in international cricket for a six, becoming the first Indian to do so in T20Is.
• He became the fastest to score 1,000 runs in T20Is in terms of balls faced (573 balls).
• He achieved 910 rating points in January 2023, the second-best in the history of men's T20I rankings.
• He scored 249 runs in the final of the Police Shield tournament in 2021, winning the 'Best Batsman of the Final' award.