Suryakumar Yadav Players Stats

Suryakumar Yadav is an Indian international cricketer. He plays as a right-handed middle-order batter and is an occasional right-arm off-break bowler. He represents the Indian cricket team and plays for Mumbai in domestic first-class cricket. Suryakumar was a member of the Indian team that finished runners-up in the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup. He plays for Mumbai in the Indian T20 League.
In 2009, Suryakumar 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 for India and later made his ODI debut in July. Suryakumar has played mainly limited-overs cricket for India and played his lone test match in February 2023. He is also one of the only three batters to score four centuries in T20Is.

In February 2021, Suryakumar was named in the Indian Twenty20 International squad for their home series against England. He made his T20I debut for India on 14 March 2021 in the second match of the series at Ahmedabad but did not bat. On 18 March, he played his first innings in the fourth game of the series and hit the first ball he faced in international cricket for a six, becoming the first Indian to do so in T20Is. He went on to score a half-century in the match. Subsequently, he was named in India's ODI squad for their series against England. In June 2021, he was named in India's limited-overs squad for their series against Sri Lanka. He made his ODI debut on 18 July 2021 in the first match of the series at Colombo. In July 2021, Yadav scored his maiden ODI fifty against Sri Lanka.

In July 2022, Suryakumar scored his maiden T20I century against England at Trent Bridge, scoring 117 off 55 balls and becoming only the fifth Indian player to score a century in T20I. In October 2022, he became the fastest to score 1000 runs in T20Is in terms of balls faced, reaching the mark in 573 balls in the series against South Africa. On 30 October 2022, Suryakumar was ranked first in the ICC men's player rankings for T20I batsmen. In November 2022, Suryakumar scored his second T20I century against New Zealand at Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui scoring 111* off 51 balls including 11 fours and 7 sixes and became the second Indian to score two centuries in T20Is in a calendar year after Rohit Sharma. Suryakumar won the ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Year award for his performance in 2022. In January 2023, he scored the second-fastest century by an Indian batter in T20Is and the third of his career, reaching the mark in 45 balls against Sri Lanka at Rajkot.

On 9 February 2023, he made his test debut against Australia at Nagpur, which has been his only test match as of January 2024. In August 2023, Suryakumar was appointed as the vice-captain of the Indian team for the T20I away series against West Indies. In August 2023, Suryakumar was appointed as the vice-captain of the Indian team for the T20I away series against West Indies. Later, he was named in the Indian squad for the 2023 Cricket World Cup in India. He scored just 106 runs across seven innings in the World Cup, where India finished as runners-up. After the World Cup, Suryakumar was named as the captain of the Indian team for the T20I series against Australia. He scored 144 runs in five innings and led the team to a 4-1 series victory. He was named as captain for the subsequent tour of South Africa. In the series, he scored the fourth T20I century of his career, equaling Rohit Sharma and Glenn Maxwell for the record of most centuries in T20Is. Suryakumar was part of the Mumbai team for the Indian T20 League’s 2012 season where he played just one match and was dismissed without scoring. In the 2014 auction, he was bought by Kolkata. He won the title with them in the first season in 2014. He scored 608 runs in 54 matches across four seasons for them. In 2018 auctions, he was bought by Mumbai for a price of ₹3.2 crore. He was prolific for Mumbai, scoring more than 1400 runs in three seasons and winning the title in the 2019 and 2020 seasons. He was retained by Mumbai ahead of the 2022 auction for ₹8 crore. However, he was ruled out of the initial part of the 2022 season due to injury and scored 303 runs in eight matches at an average of more than 43 on his return. In the 2023 season, he was appointed as the vice-captain of the side. In the 2023 season, he had a prolific season with the bat scoring 605 runs in 16 matches including his maiden Indian T20 League century against Gujarat on 12 May 2023.