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[Saba Sports News] Former India cricketer Harbhajan Singh has given his suggestion to Team India ahead of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023. He opined that Suryakumar Yadav must be included in the playing eleven in every match at any cost.
The legendary off-spinner believes that Suryakumar is a match-winner who can lead India to victory from any situation, and his name should be the first one to be written on the team sheet.
“Suryakumar Yadav should play every match. In whose place, I don’t know. But his name should be the first one to be written down. After that, the other players should be selected. He is a player who can win you games and completely change the complexion of a match. When he performs, he will turn the match into a one-sided one. No better player can bat a better strike rate,” Harbhajan said on his YouTube channel.
Harbhajan continued to praise the swashbuckling batter and proposed that he should bat at number five in every single game of the upcoming World Cup.
“Among finishers, we have Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja, but I feel Suryakumar Yadav should play at No. 5. He should play every World Cup match. No team has a better player than him,” he added.
The 33-year-old recently scored back-to-back fifties against Australia. The same had opposition troubled him in March 2023. In that series, Suryakumar recorded three consecutive ducks, and many questions were raised on the team management for constantly backing him in ODIs.
Suryakumar, who has been named in the 15-member squad of India for the World Cup, has played 29 ODIs so far in which he scored 659 runs with an average of 28.65 and a handsome strike rate of 105.6.