Mumbai: Batsman Limites Limited Prolific Limited Mumbai Suryakumar Yadav is Monday added to the Indian team for the first test against New Zealand in Kanpur, TOI has learned.
Yadav, who scored 40 ball 62 in the victory of five Indian goal over New Zealand in New Zealand at the opening T20i in Jaipur last week, was asked to join the Indian Test Team Ajinkya Rahana-LED on flights from Kolkata, where the third and final games were The T20i series is held on Sundays.
The first of two tests between India and New Zealand began at Kanpur on Thursday, November 25.
31-year-old – who scored half a century of match winners on his T20i debut against England this year – has played 11 T20i, where he has scored 244 Run, including three years and fifties, an average of 34.85, at the level of attack impressive 155.4.
In the debut of the ODI series – against Sri Lanka in July, Yadav scored 124 Run @ 62.00 in three matches, with a strike speed of 122.8, and named after ‘series players.’ Behind his impressive show in a limited match, Yadav was flown and became part of the Indian test team in England in August-September, but could not get the game.
MilmaCar, who has won a lot of admirers from his interesting and thick hit game – including the new Indian team coach Rahul Dravid – now will hope that he will be able to make his test debut at Kanpur on November 25.
According to sources, late, voters have been interested in aggressive Central Order Batsman for the test team, and Yadav clearly meets the criteria.
It is known to be a ‘sky,’ Yadav has scored 5,326 running in 77 first-class matches, including 14 hundred and 26 fifties.
He made a first-class debut in the 2010-11 season for Mumbai, scoring 73 against Delhi.
In recent years, ‘Surya’ has become a consistent ‘run-getter’ consistently for MI.
As official communication in this case does not come at the time of this writing from BCCI, it is not yet known whether Yadav has been recruited as a substitute or has just been added to the squad as an additional player.
Yadav Suryakumar added to the Indian team for Kanpur tests
