Mumbai Indians’ Suryakumar Yadav has been a fans favourite for the longest time. He is adoringly referred as “SKY” by the cricket fans. But have you ever wondered Why Suryakumar Yadav is called SKY.
Suryakumar Yadav got the nickname SKY due to his name itself. SKY is just a simple abbreviation of his long name. They are just initials of his name. S stands for Surya, K stands for Kumar and Y stands for Yadav.
Suryakumar Yadav set out with a dream of playing for India and at the age of 30, that dream finally came true.
SKY made his debut for India in the 2nd T20I against England but didn’t get a chance to bat in the game as the hosts registered a comfortable 7-wicket win. He announced his arrival at the international stage with a six. In the fourth T20I against England, Suryakumar Yadav came to bat at no. 3 and at the very first ball of his international career, the stylish batsman played a pull shot against Jofra Archer to slam a six.
Mumbai Indians batsman Suryakumar Yadav changed his game and his fitness late in his career and became one of T20 cricket’s fiercest shot makers.
Suryakumar Yadav has also been selected in India Squad for Sri Lanka Tour. The Indian cricket team is all set to play against Sri Lanka in a three-match ODI and three-match T20I series in the month of July. The series will commence from July 13.
India Squad for Sri Lanka
Shikhar Dhawan (Captain), Prithvi Shaw, Devdutt Padikkal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suryakumar Yadav, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Nitish Rana, Ishan Kishan (Wicket-keeper), Sanju Samson (Wicket-keeper), Yuzvendra Chahal, Rahul Chahar, K Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Vice-captain), Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Chetan Sakariya
India vs Sri Lanka Schedule
The three ODIs will be played on July 13, 16, and 18. While the T20I series will commence on July 21, and the next two matches will be played on July 23 and 25. All the matches will be played at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.
