Mumbai: Mumbai Indians batsman Suryakumar Yadav who made quite a statement with his unbeaten batting skills has been one of the most impressive performers in Indian Premier League 2020. His exclusion from Australia tour came as a shock to many.
Reacting to the national snub, ‘disappointed’ Suryakumar has revealed that he himself was expecting to be selected this time for the Australia tour. Surya finished IPL 2020 with 480 runs and bagged the seventh spot in the list of highest run-scorers of the season. Yadav is Mumbai’s top scorer since 2018 ahead of the likes of Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya.
“Frankly, I was expecting to be selected this time. I was a bit disappointed when I found my name missing. I couldn’t even train that day and it was difficult to take my mind off from that dejection. Even Rohit (Sharma) asked me if I was disappointed and I told him I was. But never mind. I will wait for my chances. There is a lot of time to show my cricket abilities and make my case stronger for a national call-up. I hope I can score big in domestic games and then do well in the next IPL to catch the attention of the selectors,” Yadav was quoted as saying to Hindustan Times.
” It was a good season for me. Ahead of the season, I had set some goals and I am happy that I could contribute for the team. I wanted to deliver when (the) chips were down and fortunately everything panned out well. During the preparations, we as a team made a slogan, ‘creating history’, and wanted to win the title in 2020 which is an even year. Mumbai Indians have never won in an even-numbered year. So, I have to say IPL 13 gave us reasons to be the happiest,” he said.
He also revealed that legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar also sent him a message, asking him to keep scoring runs to ultimately break into the national set-up.
“The selection is not in my hand. So, I don’t think much….Even Sachin Tendulkar paaji sent me a message asking me to continue scoring runs and I would like to use the chances and do well… I will try my best to be in contention for the World T20 team,” he further said.
