Sunrisers Eastern Cape left-arm spinner Roelof van der Merwe wants to have Suryakumar in his SA20 franchise. According to him, SKY is the best hitter of the cricket ball at the moment.
The 38-year-old has shown his class in the ongoing SA20. With 14 wickets in six matches at an average of 7.78 and an economy rate of 4.73, he is the leading wicket-taker in the competition.
The Dutch spinner took 6 wickets for 20 wickets in the match against Durban’s Super Giants.
“At the moment, you have got to go with Suryakumar Yadav. The way he is hitting the ball, it has to be him.”
Suryakumar smashed 1164 runs from 31 matches at an average of 46.56 and a strike rate of 187.43 in 2022. He hit two hundreds and nine fifties and was also named ICC Men’s T20I Player of 2022.