Former India batter Gautam Gambhir was all reward for Suryakumar Yadav after the latter scored one more unbeaten fifty within the ongoing T20 World Cup. Suryakumar, who’s presently the top-ranked batter within the ICC T20I rankings, slammed an unbeaten 61 off 25 balls, serving to India in brushing apart Zimbabwe of their ultimate recreation of the group stage. With the win, India topped Group 2 and can tackle England within the semi-finals on Thursday. While analysing his knock, Gambhir mentioned that whereas India have the likes of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, they’ve by no means had a participant like Suryakumar.

“There are players like Virat Kohli, KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma, who are very orthodox players. Suryakumar Yadav is different. Enjoy, watch and relish it. Because you don’t get these kinds of players that often and India has never had this kind of player, especially batting at No.4,” Gambhir mentioned after the match on Star Sports.

Gambhir additionally labelled Suryakumar because the participant of the match.

“You will get traditional players who will give you much more consistency, but imagine the strike rate of Suryakumar, what was it, 180, I guess? Above 200 runs, three fifties…he is the Player of the Tournament for me already even if India don’t go on to win it. He is already the best because of the kind of impact he has had,” he added.

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So far, Suryakumar has scored 225 runs in 5 matches at a mean of 75.

He will look to proceed his kind within the semi-final conflict towards England in Adelaide.