Surya Kumar Ashok Yadav (born 14 September 1990) is an Indian international

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. Regarded as one of the best batters in

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, he plays as a right handed batsman for

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in the

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and for the

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in Indian domestic cricket. Yadav has drawn comparisons to

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, often considered as one of the greatest Twenty20 batsmen. As of 1 November 2022, Yadav was ranked as the number one T20 International batsman in the world. He captained Mumbai cricket team in T20 and First-class Cricket for brief period of time, since 2010.https://www.firstpost.com/firstcricket/player-profile/suryakumar-yadav-11803&ved=2ahUKEwj_vdCG25n7AhUv7nMBHZFOBlk4FBAWegQIEBAB&usg=AOvVaw3KVOtKf-k5CkEYELuVRczX He is a right-handed

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debut for India on 14 March 2021 against

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. He made his

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(ODI) debut for India on 18 July 2021 against

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Early life

Yadav's family is from Maharashtra. His father migrated to Mumbai from UP, for job in the

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. That time Yadav was 10 years old. Surya learnt the game while playing in the streets of

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. At the age of 10, his father saw his inclination towards the game and enrolled him in a cricket camp in BARC colony in Anushakti Nagar. He then went to ''Elf Vengsarkar Academy'' of former international cricketer,

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and played the age group cricket in Mumbai. He is an alumnus of Pillai College of Arts, Commerce and Science. On 7 July 2016 Yadav married Devisha Shetty.

Career

Yadav played

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for Parsi Gymkhana Cricket Club in Mumbai Apart from Parsi Gymkhana he had played for Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited team and clubs such as Shivaji Park Gymkhana club and Dadar Union club in Mumbai's club cricket. He made his first-class cricket debut for Mumbai cricket team in Ranji trophy 2010-11, he scored 73. In the next season of 2011-12, he was the leading run scorer for his team with the 754 runs in 9 matches, it includes double century against

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, in 3rd match of season's. In the same season in anathor top Indian List-A

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tournament scored hundred. In 2013–14 season he was one of top leading scorer for Mumbai. In Indian domestic cricket he has played for Mumbai A, West Zone, India Red, India blue, Mumbai cricket association's IX teams and for India under 23, India A, India C in international junior cricket. He is one of the senior and regular member of Mumbai Ranji team. He was a captain of Mumbai cricket team for brief period of time in Ranji trophy. Amid

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season

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(MCA) removed him from captaincy and dropped from the team in 2018-19 season. MCA's selection committee selected him and appointed as captain for 2019-20 of the tournament. As of 3 December 2019, In First-class, he has scored 4818 runs, 12 hundreds and 24 half centuries. Yadav was captain of Mumbai team in

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. In 2021, playing for his club, Parsi Gymkhana, he scored 249 runs in final match against Payyade Sports Club in ' Police Shield' tournament at the ''Police Gymkhana ground,'' Mumbai''.'' Parsee Gymkhana has won this tournament last time way back in 1956, created the history by becoming the first club to win back-to-back trophies in 3 different format in single season. Yadav won the best batsman of the final award. In October 2018, he was named in India C's squad for the

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. In October 2019, he was named in the India C squad for the

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Indian Premier League

He received an IPL contract from

(MI) for the 2012 season. He played just one match in the season and was dismissed without scoring. He was bought by

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in the 2014 IPL auctions. He made headlines in IPL 2015 when he hit a match-winning 20 ball 46 runs with five sixes against MI at

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. He became the team's vice-captain and played regularly. He was bought at a price of by

in 2018 IPL auctions. After impressive stint with the

, he was retained by them ahead of 2022 season '' mega auction'' for INR 8 Cr. He was ruled out from IPL 2022 due injury in left forearm.

International career

In February 2021, he was named in India's

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(T20I) squad for their series against England. It was his maiden international call-up to the India cricket team. He made his T20I debut for India on 14 March 2021, against

. He then played the fourth game of the series on 18 March and got his first opportunity to bat, and hit the first ball he faced in international cricket for a six, becoming the first Indian to do so in T20 International, and went on to score a half-century. The next day, he was named in India's

(ODI) squad for their series against England. His game changing performances at No. 3 led him to being described as an "X Factor" player by his captain. In June 2021, he was named in India's

(ODI) and

(T20I) squads for their series against Sri Lanka. He made his ODI debut on 18 July 2021, for India against

. On 21 July 2021, Yadav scored his maiden ODI fifty against

. In July 2021, Suryakumar Yadav was called up as a replacement to India's Test squad for their series against England. In September 2021, Yadav was named in India's squad for the

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. In November, he was added to India's

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squad for their series against New Zealand. In June 2022, he was named in India's squad for their T20I series against Ireland. In July 2022, Suryakumar Yadav scored his maiden T20I century against

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scoring 117 off 55 balls. He is only the 5th Indian player to record a century in T20I, and only the 2nd to reach the mark batting 4th or lower. In October 2022, he became the fastest batsman to score 1000 runs in T20I's, reaching the mark in 573 balls against

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. On 30 October 2022, Yadav was ranked first in the ICC T20I rankings for batsmen. On 27 October 2022, Yadav scored the fourth fastest half-century by an Indian batsman at a T20 World Cup, and his first at a T20 World Cup, reaching the mark in 25 balls against

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. In November 2022, Suryakumar Yadav scored his second T20I century against New Zealand at Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand, scoring 111* off 51 balls with the help of 11 fours and 7 sixes, he became second Indian to score two centuries in T20Is in a calendar year and emulates

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's record.

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