‘He is probably in that phase now where he needs to do something’, De Villiers on out-of-form SKY
This year, one of the major worries for the MI team management has been the form of their star batter, Suryakumar Yadav. He made his name with explosive performances in the IPL, Since then, ‘SKY’ – as he is fondly known. Earlier this year, Surya endured a series of rough outings and in the ODI series against AUS right before the IPL, the batter registered three-successive golden ducks.
De Villiers said, as quoted by PTI –
“He is probably in that phase now where he needs to do something. But the secret of it all is not to panic and not to change your game plan. He has got to stick to what has been working for him over the years.” Ex-South African batter AB de Villiers – with whom Surya is often compared to because of similar 360-degree hitting approach – spoke in great detail about the India batter’s form.
De Villiers added – “Yes, maybe, he can try and remember ‘what are my basics’ or ‘what did I do very well when I was just consistently scoring runs’ and because obviously he took his game to a completely different level.”
De Villiers further said –
“It is not a bad thing just to come a level down and spend a little time in there before you pop out again. You cannot always score 100 off 40 balls – it is not always going to happen. That is something I had to learn the hard way with the Chinnaswamy crowd going, expecting me to score a hundred in every game.”