Twitter Reactions: India's T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav celebrates his 34th birthday

India’s T20I captain, Suryakumar Yadav celebrates his 34^th birthday today. Surya rose to the echelons of Indian cricket through his spectacular performance in the Indian Premier League, playing for Mumbai Indians. As a result of the intense grind, he played his first game for India on 14 March, 2021 in a T20I against England in Ahmedabad. Notably, he held the number-one ranking for T20I batters for more than a year. 

In December 2023, Suryakumar became the joint-fastest Indian to score 2000 runs in T20Is. He shared the record with former India captain, Virat Kohli, who also took 56 innings to reach the milestone. Moreover, he also became the third joint-fastest in the world to score 2000 runs in T20Is. Suryakumar (1164) surpassed former Australia batter Aaron Finch (1283) in terms of the number of balls taken to reach the 2000 runs milestone. 

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Speaking of his records, he also overtook the former India captain, MS Dhoni (45 in 2007) with his 56-run knock against South Africa in 2023. His score was the highest for any Indian captain in T20Is in South Africa. Suryakumar was named as the full-time T20I captain ahead of the Sri Lanka tour in July. His overall captaincy stats are seven wins in 10 games. 

The 34-year-old has played 71 T20Is and has batted 68 times. He has managed 2432 runs at an average of 42.66 and a strike rate of 168.65 with four tons. He is third after Rohit Sharma (4231 runs in 159 matches) and Kohli (4188 runs in 125 matches) in the list of highest runs by Indians in T20Is.  

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