England all-rounder Moeen Ali is cautious of the risk posed by India’s star batter Suryakumar Yadav of their T20 World Cup semi-final in Adelaide on November 10.
New Delhi,UPDATED: Nov 8, 2022 10:46 IST
T20 World Cup: Moeen Ali cautious of risk posed by ‘best in the world’ Suryakumar (AP Photo)
By India Today Web Desk: England all-rounder Moeen Ali has hailed star Suryakumar Yadav as one of the best batter on the earth at the moment, saying that the India batter has taken T20 cricket to a different degree. Yadav is at the moment India’s second-highest run-scorer within the ongoing T20 World Cup 2022, with 225 runs from 5 matches at a mean of 75 and a strike price of 193.96.
Only Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan has scored extra runs in a calendar 12 months (1,325), however his strike price of 134.89 is much decrease than Yadav’s 186.54, and Moeen is effectively conscious of the risk the World No.1 T20I batter poses.
“He’s an amazing player, I do feel like he’s the best in the world,” Moeen stated.
“He’s probably taken T20 cricket to another level. I think he’s the first of the players who come through where you can’t bowl at him when he’s playing well, it’s very difficult and weakness doesn’t really stick out.
Suryakumar Yadav hit his maiden T20I hundred against England in the summer, smashing 14 fours and six sixes at Trent Bridge before Moeen dismissed the India star for 117.
“He completely murdered me earlier than I acquired him out,” Moeen added.
“They nonetheless wanted a whole lot of runs and he acquired them shut. Thankfully he was drained after I acquired him out – that’s how I acquired him, I believe. But he performed amazingly effectively, among the photographs he performed had been among the greatest I’ve ever seen.”
Moeen, then again, was fast to level out that India is a workforce loaded with match-winners and believes England will likely be underdogs within the second semi-final of the T20 World Cup in Adelaide on Thursday.
India are actually scheduled to lock horns with Jos Buttler’s England within the second semi-final on Thursday, November 10 in Adelaide.
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Nov 8, 2022