'Very difficult to bowl to him': MI pacer Akash Madhwal on Suryakumar Yadav

More plaudits have come Suryakumar Yadavrsquos way after his outrageous 49ball unbeaten 103 11x4 6x6 helped Mumbai Indians MI outclass defending champions Gujarat Titans GT by 27 runs at the Wankhede Stadium on FridayThe way he holds sway over opposition bowlers and wields his punitive blade has had even the most articulate of experts struggling for adjectives to describe the Suryakumar Yadav way of battingAkash Madhwal celebrates a GT wicket on FridaySo whatrsquos this destructive batsman like in the nets MI pacer Akash Madhwal 331 who along with exIndia leggie Piyush Chawla and leftarm spinner Kumar Kartikeya helped restrict Gujarat Titans for 1918 in response to MIrsquos 2185 touched on the subject in reply to middayrsquos query on Friday night ldquoWhat he Suryakumar trains for in the nets he is able to execute the same in the game It is very difficult to bowl to him in the nets I have also played a practice match against him Watching him bat is special I have not seen a player like himrdquo said Madhwal who plays state cricket for UttarakhandMadhwal 29 dismissed David Miller 41 and both Gujarat openers Shubman Gill 6 and Wriddhiman Saha 2 earlyIn reply to MIrsquos 2185 GTrsquos Rashid Khanrsquos 32ball 79 not out 3x4 10x6 went in vain as Hardik Pandyarsquos team lostAlso Read McCullum on Archerrsquos MI deal Game is going in a different directionEarly strugglesThough Suryakumar is leading MIrsquos run charts with 479 he was struggling for runs in the initial stage of the tournament And before the start of IPL16 he endured three consecutive ducks against the visiting Australians in a threematch ODI series last March His poor form continued in the IPL with scores of 15 one and zero against Royal Challengers Bangalore Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Capitals respectively But he shrugged off those forgettable outings remarkably Gujaratrsquos assistant coach Ashish Kapoor had nothing but praise for the opposition batter who lit up the Wankhede with Sachin Tendulkar witnessing his brillianceldquoIt was an absolutely brilliant knock He Suryakumar played smartly We were expecting leftarm spinner Noor Ahmad to get him out because the way he played him and got out to him in the previous game Even today Friday he did not take chances against him Noor But once he was set you all know what Surya can do When a guy is in that kind of form it is very difficult for the bowlers These kind of batsmen put bowlers under a lot of pressure You donrsquot know how many sixes they are going to hit every over forget the inningsrdquo remarked Kapoor the former India offspinnerlsquoRashid is an allrounderrsquoMeanwhile Kapoor underlined how his teamrsquos Afghanistan leggie Rashid falls into the allrounder category ldquoRashid almost pulled it for us Maybe with one or two good overs upfront we would have got closer He is a topclass player there is no doubt about it People look at him as a legspinner but he has proved that he is a top allrounder at least in this formatrdquo remarked Kapoor