Surya cannot be ignored, shows why he is number one batsman after initial flop show

Indian Premier League 2023: Before the start of the 16th season of IPL, the biggest concern for Mumbai Indians (MI) was the form of Suryakumar Yadav. In the home ODI series against Australia, Surya returned to the pavilion without opening an account in three consecutive matches. After this, in the first 3 matches of this season, only 16 runs came out of Surya’s bat.

Suryakumar Yadav scored 15 in his innings of this season of IPL, 1 in the second innings while he could not even open the account in the third innings. Surya’s average in the first 3 innings was only 5.3. From here, Surya made his way back to form and scored an inning of 43 runs in just 25 balls against Kolkata Knight Riders.

The glimpse of Surya’s return to form brought happiness back on the faces of all the fans. Suryakumar has scored half-centuries in 4 of his last 6 IPL innings. Out of this, Surya has scored 3 half-centuries at Wankhede Stadium. Surya has scored 360 runs in his last 8 IPL innings at an average of 45. During this, his strike rate of 196.7 has been seen.

Mumbai reached third place with Surya’s innings

For Mumbai Indians, the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore was very important from the point of view of staying in the playoff race. Chasing the target of 200 runs, Suryakumar Yadav played an excellent inning of 83 runs in 35 balls with the help of 7 fours and 6 sixes for Mumbai Indians. Mumbai not only won this match in 16.3 overs but also made a lot of improvement in their net runrate. Now Mumbai has directly reached the third position in the points table with 12 points.

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