Surya kumar Yadav is a national treasure

[Chakdephatte]

18 minutes ago, the don said:

This guy is 33 and india went to a home world T20 with Rahane in the middle order.

surely he was half decent even then.

 

Even Dhawan, Pandey were better than Rahane.

[singhvivek141]

37 minutes ago, the don said:

How is he 33 already, how did he slip through the radar for so long?

Welcome to Indian Cricket, the performers have to wait in queue because of experienced individuals.
He was termed as "leg side hack" by many because he's unorthodox, poor chap has to pile up runs like a maniac in order to blow away the door. 

Edited November 7, 2022 by singhvivek141

[BacktoCricaddict]

17 hours ago, singhvivek141 said:

Welcome to Indian Cricket, the performers have to wait in queue because of experienced individuals.
He was termed as "leg side hack" by many because he's unorthodox, poor chap has to pile up runs like a maniac in order to blow away the door. 

Post is worthy of upvote and sad-vote!

 

Patching together things I have read, he was considered to be someone with "attitude" problems. 

 

Who knows, it could be true. and once he matured, he was able to maximise his natural abilities. 

 

Or he's the kind of guy who won't take crap from administrative babus, and paid for his forthrightness; just seems like he doesn't give a damn about what people think, so this is entirely possible.

 

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/suryakumar-yadav-2-the-hothead-who-turned-calm-run-machine-1254391

 

Chandrakant Pandit's coaching seems to have brought the best out of him. 

Edited November 8, 2022 by BacktoCricaddict

[vice]

Crucial cog in the Indian Middle order.  His impact is immense. He comes in and straight away changes the momentum.  These things are beyond stats and need some watching the game to put his role into context.  Even his 20-30 runs are vital at times.

[vvvslaxman]

Wish we had SKY in that world T20 final we lost to Srilanka. Malinga and go contained us by bowling wide yorkers. This guy would have played to fine leg, long leg. SL would have wilted. We had this Thala digging treasure.

[singhvivek141]

10 hours ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

Post is worthy of upvote this and sad-vote!

 

Patching together things I have read, he was considered to be someone with "attitude" problems. 

 

Who knows, it could be true. and once he matured, he was able to maximise his natural abilities. 

 

Or he's the kind of guy who won't take crap from administrative babus, and paid for his forthrightness; just seems like he doesn't give a damn about what people think, so this is entirely possible.

 

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/suryakumar-yadav-2-the-hothead-who-turned-calm-run-machine-1254391

 

Chandrakant Pandit's coaching seems to have brought the best out of him. 

These days if someone is confident of his abilities, is termed as someone with attitude problems by our BCCI babus 
When SKY made that "Main Hoon Na" gesture after match winning knock against RCB, people were trolling him on Twitter and SM stating he's showing Kohli's attitude despite not achieving 5% of what Kohli has. Now the same SKY has turned those people as his die hard fans.

BCCI babus want a yes sir, ok sir wale performers. When a player is young, he carry that in your face attitude which can hit ego of some. 

[rkt.india]

17 minutes ago, singhvivek141 said:

These days if someone is confident of his abilities, is termed as someone with attitude problems by our BCCI babus 
When SKY made that "Main Hoon Na" gesture after match winning knock against RCB, people were trolling him on Twitter and SM stating he's showing Kohli's attitude despite not achieving 5% of what Kohli has. Now the same SKY has turned those people as his die hard fans.

BCCI babus want a yes sir, ok sir wale performers. When a player is young, he carry that in your face attitude which can hit ego of some. 

You can call it MCA, not BCCI. Mumbai cricket association.

[Mesky99]

12 hours ago, the don said:

How is he 33 already, how did he slip through the radar for so long?

He's improvement has been a recent case, he was never consistent in domestic cricket, technique was all over the place, averaged around 30 in list A cricket, had average footwork, never really good put up the runs to be picked.

[nevada]

11 hours ago, vice said:

Crucial cog in the Indian Middle order.  His impact is immense. He comes in and straight away changes the momentum.  These things are beyond stats and need some watching the game to put his role into context.  Even his 20-30 runs are vital at times.

Yes, absolutely! Partnerships are very important while batting and some of his confidence runs off on his batting partners as well, motivating them  to play a bit more freely. Having two stat padders tuk tuk their way at each end totally kills the team''s momentum. SKY has single handedly prevented that from happening for our team. He may not look convincing, appear high risk and make the likes of Harsha repeatedly talk about his "incredible purple patch" implying that it could go all south for him the moment his luck runs out, but somehow he keeps scoring at a fast pace, and consistently enough to earn the #1 ranking in the world. 

[urbestfriend]

12 hours ago, singhvivek141 said:

Welcome to Indian Cricket, the performers have to wait in queue because of experienced individuals.
He was termed as "leg side hack" by many because he's unorthodox, poor chap has to pile up runs like a maniac in order to blow away the door. 

Two takeaways from SKY..

1. Selection to the national team should be based on current form of the player not his probable ability. Probably if he had been selected to the team few years back, he couldn't have had succesful career as he is having currently.

2. Age is just a factor. In India, we keep thinking about age in India, but if the player is fit and in form, age dont matter.

[Vk1]

12 hours ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

Post is worthy of upvote this and sad-vote!

 

Patching together things I have read, he was considered to be someone with "attitude" problems. 

 

Who knows, it could be true. and once he matured, he was able to maximise his natural abilities. 

 

Or he's the kind of guy who won't take crap from administrative babus, and paid for his forthrightness; just seems like he doesn't give a damn about what people think, so this is entirely possible.

 

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/suryakumar-yadav-2-the-hothead-who-turned-calm-run-machine-1254391

 

Chandrakant Pandit's coaching seems to have brought the best out of him. 

wow what a lovely article by Shashank Kishore.. just brilliantly summarized.. loved that Chandrakant Pandit / 30+ players Indian debut bit..

[Vk1]

12 hours ago, vice said:

Crucial cog in the Indian Middle order.  His impact is immense. He comes in and straight away changes the momentum.  These things are beyond stats and need some watching the game to put his role into context.  Even his 20-30 runs are vital at times.

under appreciated by the experts but a brilliant point on SKY... not just his best days even his avg/off days are >>>> our other batters off days

Edited November 8, 2022 by Vk1

[Vk1]

34 minutes ago, nevada said:

Yes, absolutely! Partnerships are very important while batting and some of his confidence runs off on his batting partners as well, motivating them  to play a bit more freely. Having two stat padders tuk tuk their way at each end totally kills the team''s momentum. SKY has single handedly prevented that from happening for our team. He may not look convincing, appear high risk and make the likes of Harsha repeatedly talk about his "incredible purple patch" implying that it could go all south for him the moment his luck runs out, but somehow he keeps scoring at a fast pace, and consistently enough to earn the #1 ranking in the world. 

  he has managed to cleverly fool the majority of cricketing audience into believing him as a top class analyst of the game ( esp T20s ) for so many decades.. his SKY ranting is proof of that

[Cloud9]

Indian middle order in 50 over looks good. Iyer, Sky, Pant, Rahul and Hardik. 

Edited November 8, 2022 by Cloud9

[Number]

I was briefly following SuryaKumar Yadav's FC career when Sachin, Dravid and Laxman were about to retire in 2012. He played for Mumbai Ranji side in middle order and had 2 great seasons. Thought he could be in contention for one of the spots.

Then slowly Pujara, Rahane and Kohli cemented their places and he fell off the radar.

Batted very low in the batting order for IPL teams for most part of IPL career so it was difficult for him to stake a claim for limited overs side. After he started opening for MI, he didn't knock the door, he just blew it away.

[Mesky99]

15 minutes ago, Cloud9 said:

Indian middle order in 50 over looks good. Iyer, Sky, Pant, Rahul and Hardik. 

Add patidar

[BacktoCricaddict]

 

2 hours ago, Number said:

Batted very low in the batting order for IPL teams for most part of IPL career so it was difficult for him to stake a claim for limited overs side. After he started opening for MI, he didn't knock the door, he just blew it away.

At the risk of (a) hijacking the thread and (b) being laughed out of the forum, I say this:  another player I am keeping my eye on is Rinku Singh.  Supremely fit, high motor on the field, averages high and strikes at a really high rate in FC and LO matches, but bats too low both for UP and in the IPL to make a consistent impact.  But whenever he has got a chance, he has made it count.  That one innings he played against a really good LSG attack last IPL, almost bringing KKR a crucial win, until Evin Lewis' out-of-the-world catch got him was unforgettable. 

[flamy]

I'm not convinced, yet. I have not seen him win matches for India. He couldn't finish off the match against England (when he got the 100). Will be interesting to see if she shows up for the knock-out. There's no Mark Wood, so maybe he'll do ok.

[figo6762]

Don’t tell Nicholas cage about SKY being national treasure , otherwise he will make movie about it 

[Frustrated]

National treasure with yet another treasure-full knock in a KO.