By India Today Sports Desk: Mumbai Indians pacer Akash Madhwal hailed teammate Suryakumar Yadav as an extra-ordinary batter after the MI star hit his maiden IPL hundred in a 27-run win over Gujarat Titans on the Wankhede Stadium. Suryakumar was named Player of the Match for his scintillating 103* off 49 balls as MI defeated Gujarat Titans (GT) by 27 runs in match amount 57 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023.
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“Bowling to him is very difficult. I have bowled to pretty good batters but Suryakumar Yadav happens to be someone extraordinary. The shots he practices in the nets come off as it is when he plays them on the field. So it is very difficult to bowl to him, Madhwal said in a post-match press conference.
Suryakumar hit 11 fours and six sixes in his magnificent innings, finishing with a strike rate of 210.20. After being asked to bat first, the Mumbai Indians amassed 218/5 thanks to his exploits. Madhwal claimed that bowling to Suryakumar Yadav is extremely difficult. He also mentioned that the batter practices his 360-degree strokes even in the nets.
“Even inside the observe matches, he pulls off these types of images out of nowhere. The smartest factor about these images as a bowler all through observe matches is that they seem stunning. Haven’t seen anyone bat like him however.”
While Suryakumar shone with the bat, Madhwal was the star of Mumbai’s bowling attack. As the ‘Impact Player,’ he recorded 3/31 in three overs as Gujarat Titans lost half their side for 55 in the chase.
When asked about his bowling performance, the 29-year-old said that their strategy was to keep things tight at the start.
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“There was a great deal of dew and it was significantly troublesome to bowl slower balls. Our plan was pretty straightforward in the direction of Titans. We bowled with the intention of choking them for runs firstly. So I caught to my power, which is bowling arduous lengths all by my spell of 4 overs.”
While he is primarily regarded as a death-overs specialist, he was selected as a new-ball bowler for Friday’s match.
“My place sooner than this match was to bowl the highest overs nevertheless Rohit [Sharma] bhaiya educated me a day sooner than the match that I is perhaps bowling inside the powerplay overs after seeing me inside the nets. He requested me to be ready and when the prospect arrived, thankfully, I used to have the ability to seize it.”
