'It is actually hard to watch Suryakumar Yadav bat' - Australian batter heaps praise on Indian's batting prowess

Suryakumar Yadav (Source: Twitter)

Suryakumar Yadav is batting on a different planet at the moment. He was the second-highest scorer at the recently concluded T20 World Cup where he scored 239 runs in six innings at an average of 59.75 and at a strike rate of 189.68. He has been in superb form in T20Is. 

Suryakumar has raced through the ranks in T20 cricket, He became the top-ranked batter in the shortest format of the game and has to his credit 1408 runs at a strike rate of 180.97. He also has two hundreds in T20Is. The second ton came against New Zealand in the second T20I on Sunday where he scored 111 off 51 balls with 11 fours and seven sixes.

Glenn Maxwell, the Australian cricketer, who is also is famous for playing shots all around the wicket, explained on the Grade Cricketer Podcast how he was in awe of his hitting and that he took a picture of the scorecard and sent it to Aaron Finch.

“I saw the scorecard from the first innings. I screenshot it and sent to straight to Finchy and I said ‘What is going on here?’ This bloke is batting on a different planet. I said, ‘Look at everyone else’s scores and look at this bloke that’s 111 off 50’. So the next day I watched the full replay on Kayo and watched the whole innings," Maxwell explained.

This is what he had to say about Suryakumar Yadav, “The embarrassing thing is he’s so much better than everyone else. It’s actually hard to watch. It’s like ‘Ohh god!'" Maxwell said. “No one we’ve got is close to that. Suryakumar Yadav is doing it in such a bizarre, ungainly way where he’s hitting the middle of the bat by just like stepping across, deciding to sweep somebody who’s bowling 145 from off the wicket on the other side. And then just putting his head down walking down chewing some gum, glove tap, bat tap and off he goes again and does it again."

“He’s playing some of the most ridiculous shots I’ve ever seen. He’s doing it stupidly consistently. It’s just actually a bit hard to watch because it makes everyone else look so much worse for not being able to do that," Maxwell added.