Moeen Ali names Indian star as the best T20 player in the world
Moeen Ali feels Suryakumar Yadav is “the best in the world”
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Nov 8, 2022 7:47 pm
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India and England are all set to lock horns with each other in the second semi-final match of the 20-20 World Cup 2022 on 10th November in Adelaide. Ahead of the highly anticipated encounter, England all-rounder, Moeen Ali has heaped praise on Suryakumar Yadav and also called him the best T20 player in the world.
“He is an amazing player, I do feel like he is the best in the world. He has probably taken T20 cricket to another level,” Ali was quoted as saying by Sky Sports.
“I think he is the first of the players who come through where you cannot bowl at him when he is playing well, it is very difficult and a weakness does not really stick out,” he added.
Suryakumar Yadav has made a steep rise in a very short span of time in his 20-20 career. In just 28 T20 internationals, he has managed to score 1026 runs at an average of 44.60. He has already hit 9 half-centuries and one century in the shortest format and has scored all those runs at an outstanding strike rate of 186.24.
Overall, he is only the second player in the history of T20 internationals to have scored more than 1000 runs in a calendar year. The Indian cricketer has been in sensational form in the ongoing 20-20 World Cup 2022.
In 5 matches, he has amassed 225 runs at an astonishing average of 75, including 3 half-centuries. Yadav has scored runs at a strike rate of close to 200. He is India’s 2nd highest-run scorer in the tournament only behind Virat Kohli.
Notably, Suryakumar Yadav produced his maiden T20I hundred against England only. He scored 117 runs in just 55 balls, including 14 fours and 6 sixes. It was Moeen Ali, who, eventually, took his wicket.
Throwing light on the same, Moeen Ali said:
“He absolutely murdered me before I got him out. They still needed a lot of runs and he got them close. Thankfully, he was tired when I got him out – that’s how I got him, I think. But he played amazingly well, some of the shots he played were some of the best I have ever seen.”
