Australia and India played the first T20I match of their 5-match T20 series. Batting first, Australia put up a huge total of 208 runs.
Ruturaj Gaikwad getting run out in the most unfortunate way without even playing a single ball didn’t help India’s cause. However, some of the other batters played good innings to take India home with an impressive win.
But the best innings came from Surya’s bat. He scored 80 runs off just 42 balls. His innings included as many as 4 sixes and 9 fours.
We got to see vintage Surya after a long time. He was hitting it all over the park. However, this powerful knock attracted not praise and admiration, but a truck full of criticism for Suryakumar Yadav.
Reason for Fans’ Anger
If you’re wondering why many Indian fans were angry on Suryakumar Yadav playing a brilliant inning, you don’t need to look too far. The recently concluded ODI World Cup saw India losing the World Cup Final to Australia due to a poor batting performance.
India’s loss came on the back of a huge winning streak of 10 matches. However, Suryakumar Yadav had a very bad World Cup, scoring a dismal 106 runs combined in all the matches he played.
He didn’t show up in the World Cup Finals either! He scored a poor 18 runs off 28 balls, with just 1 four and no six in his inning. It was his last chance to make up for the unusually poor performance in the entire World Cup, but he couldn’t utilize the opportunity.
So now when Surya played an impressive knock in the first T20 match against Australia, it led to a lot of fans on X criticizing him for not performing in the most important ODI World Cup Finals event, but now in a T20 match which barely matters.
In fact, it even led a meme fest on X about his sudden change in performance. Here are a few of the most viral posts.
One user also commented on how Rohit Sharma might be feeling after watching Suryakumar’s innings today against Australia. In just a funnily imaginative way.
In fact, even the commentators didn’t hold back from taking a dig at Suryakumar Yadav while being live on air during the match. Here’s how Hayden responded to Ravi Shastri during the match on Surya.
We couldn’t independently verify whether Hayden actually made these comments on air during the match. However, the way these posts have been made it appears that he did!
While India did win today on the back of a special batting performance from Suryakumar Yadav, it wasn’t without any thrill. We saw a lot of drama in the last over of India’s chase, at a point when India had almost made it over the line with just 2 runs needed to win from 4 balls.
However, Axar Patel committed a blunder at this point which drew a shocking reaction from Suryakumar Yadav in the dressing room. India did manage to get over the line eventually but not without a lot of tension after Patel’s wicket.