India’s T20I captain and former ICC No. 1-ranked batter in the shortest format Suryakumar Yadav has admitted that he is going through a lean patch. However, the Mumbai cricketer has assured that he will work hard ahead of the home series against New Zealand and get back to top form soon.

India will be playing a five-match T20I series against the Kiwis, starting on January 21 in Nagpur before the T20 World Cup begins on February 7. Suryakumar, 35, who has scored four centuries and 2788 runs in 99 T20Is, has not scored a half-century across his last 22 innings. In his last four outings versus South Africa, Suryakumar’s scores were 12, 5, 12 and 5.