Six runs were needed in the last over for Sri Lanka. 

Then Suryakumar came to bowl and managed to take two wickets in the last over. He dismissed Kamindu Mendis (1 off 3) and Mahish Teekshna (0 off 1 ball) giving away just five runs and the match was tied. In the super over, the Sri Lankan team could score only two runs and India got a target of three runs. India achieved success by scoring four runs on the first ball itself. Suryakumar sent the ball outside the fine-leg boundary.

India managed to win the thrilling match and whitewashed Sri Lanka 3-0. After India’s victory, there was a flood of memes on social media, in which new head coach Gautam Gambhir was credited with turning Indian batsmen into spin magicians. One user even compared the trio of Rinku Singh, Suryakumar Yadav, and Riyan Parag to legendary spinners Shane Warne, Muttiah Muralitharan, and Shane Warne.

Earlier, with the spin magic of Mahesh Theekshana (three wickets for 28 runs) and Wanindu Hasaranga (two wickets for 29 runs), Sri Lanka restricted India to a score of 137 for nine in the third and final T20 International cricket match here on Tuesday. For India, opener and vice-captain Shubman Gill scored the highest 39 runs. He helped India overcome a slow start by adding 54 runs for the sixth wicket with 26-year-old Riyan Parag. In the final over, Washington Sundar (25) and Ravi Bishnoi (8 not out) added 32 runs for the eight wickets to take the team to a respectable score of 137.

Apart from Teekshana and Hasaranga, Chamindu Wickramasinghe (1 wicket for 17 runs), Asitha Fernando (1 wicket for 11 runs), and Ramesh Mendis (1 wicket for 26 runs), who were making their international cricket debut for Sri Lanka, also took one wicket each. In reply, Sri Lanka had scored 110 runs for one wicket, so it did not seem that the Indian team would be able to win this match. However, after Rinku-Suryakumar, thanks to the brilliant bowling of Washington Sundar in the super over, Team India managed to win.

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Suryakumar Yadav has been a name inseparable from Mumbai Indians throughout the long term, having arisen as not just a central member in the batting set-up, but on the other hand is distinguished as an expected pioneer for the establishment, during his hair-raising residency starting around 2018. It was his heroics at MI that assisted him with breaking into the Indian white-ball side and ascending to the highest point of the IC batting rankings in the organization. Notwithstanding, exactly the same Suryakumar was once essential for the Kolkata Knight Riders set-up, somewhere in the range of 2014 and 2017, preceding he was let go. As then-skipper Gautam Gambhir glances back at that KKR time, which lifted two IPL titles, he marked the India star as his greatest lament.

Suryakumar had started off his IPL vocation back in 2012, where he played just a single counterpart for Mumbai Indians, prior to being delivered by the establishment the next year. In 2014, he was roped in by KKR and came out on top for the championship in his most memorable season at the establishment. Throughout the span of his four-year stay at the establishment, the right-given player scored 608 runs in 54 matches, however, the vast majority of those scores came as a lower center request hitter.

Addressing Sportskeeda on Monday, Gambhir conceded that not recognizing Suryakumar’s true capacity or his best batting position in the setup remains the greatest lament in his residency as KKR chief.

“A pioneer’s job is to distinguish the best potential and show it to the world. On the off chance that there is one lament I have in my seven years of captaincy is that I and the group never figured out how to utilize Suryakumar Yadav to the best of his true capacity. Also, the explanation was down to blends. You can play one player at No. 3. What’s more, as a pioneer, you need to ponder the other 10 players in the XI too. He would have been much more viable at No. 3, yet was similarly great at No. 7,” he said.

Gambhir further hailed Suruyakumar as a cooperative person, making sense of why he was named as the group’s bad habit commander in 2015.

“He was likewise a group man. Anybody can be a decent player, however, being a group man is a troublesome errand. Whether you play him at No. 6 or 7 or seat him, he was continuously grinning and consistently prepared to perform for the group. For that reason we named him as the bad habit skipper,” he added.

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