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Former Indian cricketer and commentator Sanjay Manjrekar has stated that he does not like the way the Indian skipper Suryakumar Yadav is currently approaching his batting in the ongoing ICC T20 World Cup 2026 campaign.
Speaking exclusively on his official Instagram handle, leaving out the game against the USA, Manjrekar felt that Surya played slightly conservatively despite India having a good enough batting firepower in the middle and lower middle-order.
"There is something that I am seeing in Suryakumar Yadav which I'm not liking too much. 77-6, India against USA, at the Wankhede, and Suryakumar Yadav had to change his game, which he did brilliantly. Just slowed down a little bit, and then exploded, and got a great score, player of the match, and everything," Sanjay Manjrekar said on his Instagram handle.
"Since then, I think he is taking that a bit too far. Against Pakistan, where India lost a couple of wickets, he really pulled down the shutters quite a lot. Him and Tilak Varma are both playing slightly conservatively, and in the end, what happens is that people like Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, and Rinku Singh, are not really tapped into resources as much," he added.
"In T20 cricket, that is a dangerous thing to do, where a senior player or captain feels like he has got to stay in, especially while batting first. When you are setting targets of 200 plus, if you have somebody in the top four who believes that he is the guy who has got to control the innings and make sure he is the one who will take India to a certain score, that is a very dangerous tactic. No batter must think like that. So, Surya must be careful about that," the former cricketer concluded.
India will lock horns with South Africa in the Super8 clash at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday, February 22.
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