After humiliating loss, Suryakumar Yadav promises: 'We'll come back stronger'

NEW DELHI: Indian skipper Suryakumar Yadav vowed a stronger comeback aft India suffered a crushing 76-run nonaccomplishment to South Africa successful their Group 1 Super Eights clash of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.“I consciousness we were ever successful the crippled erstwhile we started. I deliberation we bowled truly good successful the beginning, 21 for 3, and the mode they batted aft that from 7 to 15, I deliberation they batted truly well, and past we came backmost again successful the crippled aboriginal on.

Overall, if we see, we bowled truly well, but we could person batted a small better. My happening is sometimes you’ve got to think, if you’re chasing 180-185, you can’t triumph the crippled successful the powerplay, but you mightiness suffer the crippled successful the powerplay. We mislaid excessively galore wickets successful the powerplay and past we couldn’t person small, tiny partnerships which we wanted for chasing 180-185, but that’s portion of the game. We larn from it, we’ll beryllium backmost and past travel backmost stronger,” Surya said aft the match.

After winning the toss, South Africa posted 187/7, powered by David Miller’s 63 disconnected 35 balls and Dewald Brevis’ 45 disconnected 29 balls. The duo stitched a 97-run fourth-wicket concern disconnected conscionable 51 balls. Marco Jansen (4/22), Keshav Maharaj (3/24), and Corbin Bosch (2/12) besides contributed with the ball, portion Lungi Ngidi kept things choky with 4 overs for 15 runs.“I deliberation everyone knows their operation (Bumrah-Arshdeep) has been precise lethal.

Both of them person played together. If you spot contiguous also, some of them bowled 8 overs, picked astir 5 wickets and gave astir 45-50 runs. If I’m not wrong, I’m not bully with numbers. But they bowled truly good successful concern and that’s what we privation from them. Both are experienced and it’s bully to person some of them successful our side,” Surya added.India’s reply faltered from the start. Ishan Kishan fell for a duck to Markram, portion Abhishek Sharma (15) and Tilak Varma (1) were dismissed successful the powerplay.

Shivam Dube top-scored with 42, and Hardik Pandya contributed 18, but India were bowled retired for 111 successful 18.5 overs.“Hopefully bat well, vessel good and tract good (Talking astir the plans for the adjacent crippled vs Zimbabwe). That’s it. We’ll effort and support it simple, play the aforesaid marque of cricket which we privation to play and thing changes. I deliberation we’ll travel backmost strong,” Surya said.The loss, successful beforehand of 90,954 fans, is India’s archetypal ICC lawsuit decision since the 2023 ODI World Cup final, leaving them needing wins against Zimbabwe and West Indies to enactment successful semi-final contention with a nett tally complaint of -3.8.