The Indian top-order sensation Suryakumar Yadav is everyone’s favourite right now, be it Virat Kohli, Kane Williamson, Hardik Pandya or Glenn Phillips as he has been continuously receiving applause from everyone. Suryakumar has been getting recognition for his incredible form in the T20 Internationals which has seen him become the world’s top-ranked T20I batter in no time.
In 40 innings, he has smashed 1408 runs at a stupendous strike rate of 180.97. It is not just the mind-boggling numbers that make him a batter to watch out for but it is his unorthodox shots, which allow him to score all over the ground, to an extent that people call him ‘Mr. 360’.
Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell, who is known for his unorthodox batting style is in awe of him as well. On The Grade Cricketer podcast, the Australian allrounder revealed how he watched a replay of Suryakumar’s unbeaten 111 against New Zealand during the 2nd T20I after just checking the scorecard of the innings and eventually sent a screenshot of the same to his ex-skipper Aaron Finch.
The embarrassing thing is he’s so much better than everyone else: Glenn Maxwell
“I saw the scorecard from the first innings. I screenshot it and sent it straight to Finchy and I said ‘What is going on here?’ This bloke is batting on a different planet. I said, ‘Look at everyone else’s scores and look at this bloke that’s 111 off 50’. So the next day I watched the full replay on Kayo and watched the whole innings,” Maxwell said.
Maxwell, who is still recovering from his injury, said that it was hard to watch the Indian star bat as he made batting look easy, eventually embarrassing other batters.
“The embarrassing thing is he’s so much better than everyone else. It’s actually hard to watch. It’s like ‘Ohh god!'” Maxwell said. “No one we’ve got is close to that. Suryakumar Yadav is doing it in such a bizarre, ungainly way where he’s hitting the middle of the bat by just like stepping across, deciding to sweep somebody who’s bowling 145 from off the wicket on the other side. And then just putting his head down walking down chewing some gum, glove tap, bat tap, and off he goes again and does it again.”
“He’s playing some of the most ridiculous shots I’ve ever seen. He’s doing it stupidly consistently. It’s just actually a bit hard to watch because it makes everyone else look so much worse for not being able to do that,” he added
