Team India`s T20I skipper Suryakumar Yadav has completed five years in international cricket. Speaking about the completion of five years, the Indian skipper, who led the “Men in Blue” to their third T20 World Cup title, said, “Wearing the India jersey is a feeling I can still never fully put into words”.
“5 years ago, a dream turned into reality. Wearing the India jersey is a feeling I can still never fully put into words. Here`s to many more memories that we`re going to create, for team India,” he wrote on his official social media handle.
5 years ago, a dream turned into reality. Wearing the India jersey is a feeling I can still never fully put into words 🇮🇳
Here’s to many more memories that we’re going to create, for team 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/qhis2f44tQ
— Surya Kumar Yadav (@surya_14kumar) March 14, 2026
The right-handed batsman made his debut in international cricket on March 14, 2021, at the age of 30 years and 181 days. It was a bilateral T20I match against England at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. At the same venue, Suryakumar led his team to the third-shortest format world title.
With this, India became the first team to win three T20 World Cup titles. The “Men in Blue” also became the first team to defend their title on home soil.
The Mumbai-born cricketer did not bat in the debut match, but in the fourth T20I match against the “Three Lions”, the right-handed batsman smashed Jofra Archer for a maximum, facing his first delivery in international cricket.
The journey has been a remarkable one for the Indian skipper after that. In the last five years, he has made 3272 T20I runs in 113 matches with the help of four centuries and 25 half-centuries. He is the third in the list of the leading run-scorers for India in the shortest format, only after Rohit Sharma (4231) and Virat Kohli (4188).
He made his ODI debut on July 18, 2021, against Sri Lanka in Colombo, and his Test debut against Australia in Nagpur in 2023, making him the first Indian to debut in all three formats after turning 30.
The 35-year-old was also named the ICC Men`s T20I Cricketer of the Year 2022 just a year after making his international debut.
(With ANI Inputs)
