India vs England: Combined best XI of the T20I series

4. Suryakumar Yadav

Suryakumar Yadav received his first callup to the Indian team, and he made the most of the opportunity by playing a couple of terrific knocks. He is widely considered as India’s Mr.360 and thus, it was only a matter of time before he played his first game for his country.

The 30-year-old scored 480 runs in 16 IPL games at a strike rate of 145.01 and virtually forced the selectors to pick him hereafter being ignored for the T20Is against Australia. He scored 89 runs in 3 games at an average of 44.5 while maintaining a terrific strike rate of 185.41.

He made his debut along with Ishan Kishan in the 2nd game, but he didn’t get a chance to bat and was subsequently dropped for the 3rd game. However, he came back into the team for the last two games and he scored 57 and 32 in those games. His counter-attacking 57 in the fourth game was sensational and his aggressive style of batting is something the other batsmen will need to try and replicate.