Please assist me! Suryakumar Yadav makes plea to AB de Villiers to save lots of ODI profession


Suryakumar Yadav has made a plea to AB de Villiers to assist him to revive his ODI profession. Suryakumar was a part of India’s World Cup 2023 and performed within the last loss to Australia. The 35-year-old’s rise within the T20 format made the selectors push the Mumbai batter into ODIs, however the transfer proved to be a lackluster one.

In 37 ODIs, Suryakumar scored 773 runs at a mean of 25.76 with 4 fifties to his identify. The present Indian T20I captain’s efficiency within the World Cup 2023 last was criticized and has since not been part of the 50-over squad.

Chatting with Vimal Kumar, Suryakumar mentioned that he needs to satisfy De Villiers about how the previous South African skipper was capable of handle each ODIs and T20I successfully. The batsman mentioned he had the notion that ODIs must be performed in the identical approach as T20Is.

Suryakumar then despatched his SOS message to De Villiers, asking him to get in contact with him shortly as he needs to maximise the subsequent three to 4 years.

“If I meet him quickly, then I’ll prefer to ask him how he managed to stability his T20I and ODI recreation. I have not been ready to take action. I assumed ODIs ought to be performed like T20Is. I wish to ask him what he did to achieve success in each the codecs. AB, if you’re listening to this, please get in contact with me shortly as a result of there are necessary three-four years mendacity forward for me. I am very eager on enjoying ODI cricket. additionally. I could not stability T20Is and ODIs,” mentioned Suryakumar.

De Villiers, throughout his enjoying profession, was thought-about to be among the finest in ODIs and T20Is. The South African scored 9577 runs in 228 ODIs and bought 1672 runs in 78 T20Is.

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Nov 4, 2025