Why Ishan Kishan is not playing 4th T20I: Suryakumar Yadav drops bombshell at toss

NEW DELHI: India skipper Suryakumar Yadav won the flip and elected to tract against New Zealand successful the 4th T20I astatine the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium successful Visakhapatnam connected Wednesday.Having already sealed the five-match bid 3-0 with victories successful the opening 3 games, India headed into the contention with momentum firmly connected their side.

"We’re going to vessel first. It looks similar a bully wicket, and we’ll get a accidental to practise present later. There was a batch of dew past nighttime and contiguous it’s a small humid arsenic well, truthful we consciousness that successful the 2nd innings the shot volition travel onto the bat nicely. I deliberation the important happening is to repetition the bully habits we’ve built implicit the past year, not conscionable successful this series. We privation to support doing the bully things we’ve been doing, larn from the past game, and spell retired there, bask ourselves, play the format the mode it’s meant to beryllium played, and entertain the radical who’ve travel here.

It’s a beauteous crushed and a beauteous assemblage here. Hopefully the boys are charged up and we person a good, entertaining night," Suryakumar said astatine the toss."Arshdeep comes successful for Ishan Kishan, who picked up a niggle successful the past game. Axar Patel inactive needs a spot much time, truthful hopefully we’ll spot him successful the adjacent game. The batters volition request to instrumentality a spot much responsibility, but astatine the aforesaid clip not shy distant from playing with fearless intent. We’ve got 5 bully bowling options today, truthful we’ll spot however it goes," helium added.

Kishan has been successful good interaction during the bid and played an important relation successful helping India unafraid an unassailable lead. He is presently the fourth-highest run-scorer successful the contest, having amassed 112 runs from 3 T20Is astatine a striking complaint of 224.00 and an mean of 37.33.After managing conscionable 8 runs successful the opening match, the left-hander bounced backmost with a scintillating 32-ball 76 successful the 2nd T20I arsenic India chased down a 209-run people successful lone 15.2 overs.

He followed it up with a brisk 28 disconnected 13 deliveries successful the 3rd game, mounting the code for different palmy pursuit of 154, which was completed successful 15 overs.Kishan besides enjoyed a memorable Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025/26 play with Jharkhand, guiding the broadside to their maiden SMAT title. Prior to his instrumentality to the nationalist setup, helium had past featured successful a T20I successful 2023 against Australia.Teams:New Zealand (Playing XI): Tim Seifert(w), Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner(c), Zakary Foulkes, Matt Henry, Ish Sodhi, Jacob DuffyIndia (Playing XI): Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson(w), Suryakumar Yadav(c), Rinku Singh, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Harshit Rana, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah