The Team India squad announcement for the white-ball tour of Sri Lanka was a bitter-sweet moment for Suryakumar Yadav. While the attacking batter would’ve been jubilant to get the team’s captaincy in T20Is, he was also dropped from the ODI squad, with the selectors and new head coach Gautam Gambhir making their stance clear. Suryakumar was a part of India’s ODI World Cup squad in 2023 but failed to repay the trust that selectors showed in him. Hence, the 360-degree batter was snubbed for a spot in the Indian team for the ODIs in the island nation.Suryakumar might be considered the finest T20 batter in the world, but the same can’t be said about his 50-over game. In the 37 ODI matches he has played, the Mumbai batter averages just 25.76. His ability to play the patient game and gradually increase the pace of scoring runs has been doubted by many.
