India’s T20 vice-captain Suryakumar Yadav on Tuesday performed down the Ekana Stadium pitch controversy, saying the wicket would not matter loads and they’re “fine” with any sort of surfaces. India skipper Hardik Pandya had termed the Ekana pitch a “shocker” after a tense 100-run chase, which was achieved within the penultimate supply of the match. The curator was blamed for the fiasco and had been sacked.

“We (Hardik and I) had a chat later on, and it was like, whatever we got in future we will go with it. It’s completely fine,” Surya mentioned on the eve of the series-decider at Motera.

“It doesn’t matter what soil you play on. These are the things which aren’t in your control. We did what we had in our control, we had to adapt, apply on that ground and move on with the situation. But it was an exciting game.

“Any recreation, ODI or T20I, low or excessive scoring, if there’s competitors within the recreation, wickets, I do not suppose, matter loads. You go on the market, have a problem, settle for it and transfer on,” Surya added.

In tricky conditions, New Zealand had reduced India to 83/7 and the hosts needed 17 runs from the last two overs, with Surya and Hardik in the middle.

The duo brought down the equation to six runs from the last over.

“Actually, we have now been batting collectively for a really very long time now. We had some good partnerships up to now.

“At that time, it was very important for us to have good communication and have a nice atmosphere as we knew that it was a little tense in the last over.

“We had been simply having amusing, backing one another and telling one another whoever obtained a possibility let’s try to end the sport,” he said about their strategy.

The Mumbaikar attributed his exploits in domestic cricket to his composure while batting in tense situations.

“I’ve performed numerous home cricket earlier than making my worldwide debut, that has helped me loads.

“You have to apply yourself a lot and the grind you have there, playing on different challenging tracks, I just carried it from there. Rest I’ve learnt seeing so many senior players in the team, talking to them. Every game, I try to put my best foot forward.” Surya is in line for a Test debut within the much-anticipated collection towards Australia starting in Nagpur on February 9.

“Obviously, everyone wants to play Test cricket. You start your cricket at domestic level, playing with red ball only, and I played for Mumbai.

“We all understand how thrilling the collection can be, however on the similar time, it is about staying within the current and the main focus is on methods to give your greatest for tomorrow’s recreation, then we have now full time to consider Tests.” The world’s No. 1 T20I batter has come a long way since making his debut against England at the same venue on March 14, 2021.

Turning a touch emotional, he said: “I informed my supervisor additionally ‘I’m again the place all of it started’. Even I took the steps slowly considering of 2021 and the way I got here right here.

“I’ve very good memories, but it will be completely different now. I’m very excited. Beautiful stadium, amazing crowd, looking forward to an exciting game tomorrow,” he signed off.

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