Swashbuckling batter Suryakumar Yadav who is in England for the World Test Championship final against Australia, set aside some time from his busy schedule to answer some questions for the fans in a video shared by the BCCI Twitter handle.
Talking about how his nickname SKY came into being, he said, “It (the name) came in 2014/15 when I was playing for KKR. That time Gauti bhai (Gautam Gambhir) gave this name because Suryakumar Yadav, he said was too long for everyone to call so SKY came from there.”
When asked about who his best mates were in the team, the 32-year-old said, “There are a lot of them. If you look around, everyone is my best mate. But I love spending time with Ishan (Kishan), Mohammed Siraj, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin. Good to be around them.”
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He also said that Kishan was the biggest prankster in the team as well as mentioning that Lords was his favourite ground in England.
Speaking about his specialty ‘the Supla shot,’ he said, “This term has come from tennis-cricket. I have seen a lot of them when I go back home. Supla shot means the ball you hit right behind the wicketkeeper when the ball is coming towards your head. So it’s something like going behind.”
India will take on Australia at the Oval from June 7-11 in the final match of the WTC.