29 Facts About Suryakumar Yadav

Suryakumar Yadav was part of the national team that won the 2023 Asia Cup and the 2024 T20 World Cup.

Suryakumar Yadav made his List A debut for Mumbai in February 2010 before making his first-class and T20 debut in the same year.

Suryakumar Yadav has mainly played limited-overs cricket for India, having played his only Test match in February 2023.

Suryakumar Yadav was named as the captain of the Indian team for first time in November 2023 and was re-appointed as the captain of the Indian T20I team in July 2024 after the previous captain Rohit Sharma announced his retirement from T20Is.

Suryakumar Yadav held the top ranking in the ICC men's player rankings for T20Is from October 2022 to June 2024.

Suryakumar Yadav won the ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Year award in 2022 and 2023, and was named in the ICC Men's T20I Team of the Year in 2022 and 2023.

Suryakumar Yadav has played for Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League, winning one title with Kolkata in 2014 and two with Mumbai, in 2019 and 2020.

Suryakumar Yadav was born in Bombay, Maharashtra, on 14 September 1990.

On 7 July 2016, Suryakumar Yadav married Devisha Shetty, whom he first met in 2010 at a college program.

Suryakumar Yadav made his debut for Mumbai against Gujarat in a List A match in February 2010.

Suryakumar Yadav made his T20 debut against Hyderabad next month and first-class debut later against Delhi in December 2010.

Suryakumar Yadav was awarded the MA Chidambaram Trophy for the Best Under-22 cricketer by the Board of Control for Cricket in India at a ceremony held in Chennai on 10 December 2011.

Suryakumar Yadav scored 249 runs in the final against Payyade Sports Club in the Police Shield tournament in 2021, winning the "Best Batsman of the Final" award, and helped the club to win the tournament for the first time since 1956.

In February 2021, Suryakumar Yadav was named in the Indian Twenty20 International squad for the home series against England.

Suryakumar Yadav made his T20I debut on 14 March 2021 in the second match of the series at Ahmedabad but did not get a chance to bat.

Suryakumar Yadav made his ODI debut on 18 July 2021 in the first match of the series at Colombo.

In July 2021, Suryakumar Yadav was called up as a replacement player to the Indian Test squad for the away series against England, but did not play a match.

Suryakumar Yadav was part of both the limited overs squads for the home series against West Indies in February 2022 and made a comeback to the ODI team in the series.

In October 2022, Suryakumar Yadav played in the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup in Australia in which India reached the semi-finals.

Suryakumar Yadav won the ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Year award in 2022 and was named in the ICC Men's T20I Team of the Year.

On 9 February 2023, Suryakumar Yadav made his Test debut against Australia at Nagpur, which has been his only Test appearance as of August 2024.

Suryakumar Yadav was part of the Indian squad that won the 2023 Asia Cup but played only one game in the series in the loss to Bangladesh.

Suryakumar Yadav won the ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Year award for the second consecutive year in 2023.

In May 2024, Suryakumar Yadav was named in the Indian squad for the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup tournament.

Suryakumar Yadav was signed by the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League ahead of the 2012 season.

Suryakumar Yadav was a prolific run-scorer for Mumbai, scoring more than 1400 runs across three seasons, and won the title with the team in the 2019 and 2020 seasons.

Suryakumar Yadav was retained by the franchise ahead of the 2022 auction for 80 million.

Suryakumar Yadav missed the start of the 2022 season due to injury and, on his return, scored 303 runs in eight matches at an average of more than 43.

Suryakumar Yadav was appointed as the vice-captain of the side for the 2023 season and captained the side in a match against his old side KKR after Rohit missed it due to injury.