‘I never try those in the nets’ - Suryakumar Yadav reveals the story of mastering the art of 360-degree batting

The charismatic batter Suryakumar Yadav has been phenomenal in the 2022 calendar year. The 32-year-old played 31 T20Is in the year and has scored 1164 runs at a jaw-dropping strike rate of 187.43. He wreaked havoc against some of the top-notch bowlers and eventually mastered the art of 360-degree batting.

However, while talking about the same,Yadav revealed that he never tries to play all these shots in the nets but learned from his time playing with the rubber ball. He spoke about how he learned the technique and how it eventually developed his game as a 360-degree player.

“In my school and college days, I played a lot of rubber ball cricket. On hard cement tracks and on rainy days, those would bowl would come from 15 yards and most of them chucked (threw) really hard. Now rubber ball from 15 yards will come at 140 plus clicks and if the leg side the boundary would be 95 yards, the off-side would be only 25-30 yards.

So in order to prevent off-side boundaries, most of them would bowl into my body in order to prevent me from getting easy boundaries on off-side. So manoeuvring my wrists, playing those pick-up pulls and upper cuts have come from those matches,” Yadav said according to News18.

“I never try those in the nets. In the nets, I like practising normally and hearing the sound of the bat hitting the ball. If I feel good I come out,” he added.

Whenever I go into bat, I put up a show: Yadav

Courtesy of his phenomenal performance, Suryakumar Yadav is currently the number one ranked T20I batter in the world. While talking about the same, the 32-year-old told that he always tries to enjoy his game and aims to put up a show for everyone.

“I don’t like to think too much when I am playing any format. Because I enjoy this game, whenever I go into bat, I put up a show. What I always dream and visualise is that whenever I go in, I want to be the game-changer. I have always loved batting whether it is T20Is, ODIs or Ranji Trophy,” Yadav added.