
Former cricketer-turned-commentator Deep Dasgupta said he would pick Suryakumar Yadav ahead of Shreyas Iyer in the Indian team for the series-opening T20 international against England in Ahmedabad.
Suryakumar has been a steady entertainer for Mumbai Indians over the most recent couple of years and assumed a vital part in the Rohit Sharma-drove side’s fifth Indian Premier League title win a year ago.
He was rewarded for his exploits in IPL 2020 with a maiden international call-up to the Indian side for the upcoming 5 T20Is against England.
Shreyas Iyer then again, has been conflicting with the bat for Team India in the center request. Iyer has amassed 429 runs in 24 T20Is till date at a normal of 26.81 with 2 half-hundreds of years.
Iyer’s average however, goes up to 50 at No. 4 in T20Is but Dasgupta still feels Suryakumar is better suited for that position.
“I would play Suryakumar Yadav before Shreyas Iyer. It’s just that at No. 4 in T20 cricket I think Suryakumar Yadav is better suited at this point in time,” Dasgupta told Sports Today.