'Strengths Of His Bowlers': Ravi Shastri Highlights One Thing That Suryakumar Yadav Will Have To Learn

Former India head coach Ravi Shastri has said that India's newly-appointed T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav will need to identify the strengths of his bowlers during his leadership stint. The India batter's elevation came as a slight surprise given he leapfrogged Hardik Pandya for the job. The selectors ignored his comparative lack of experience as skipper as well.Ajit Agarkar and his team of selectors made it clear that they wanted a captain who was on the park 'more often than not' and went by 'dressing room feedback' while hitting the reset button on the T20I team.The next T20 World Cup, to be co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka in 2026, provides the selectors plenty of time to rebuild the team which has suffered a severe talent drain.

In the latest episode of The ICC Review, Ravi Shastri spoke of Suryakumar Yadav's playing style and how it will benefit his T20I captaincy.https://t.co/Fm7urXq7d0

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"One thing that he (Suryakumar) will have to learn from his side, is what are the strengths of his bowlers and what are their limitations," Shastri said while speaking in the latest episode of the ICC Review."I never say a bowler has a weakness, I say a limitation, and then there are strengths. And then focus on the right things and set fields accordingly. I think that is what he will have to learn," Shastri added. SKY has previous experience as skipper, having led India in a T20I series against Australia at home and South Africa away after last year's ICC Men's Cricket World Cup in Rohit's absence. He has led at the domestic level for Mumbai as well. But his experience still remains less than Pandya. Shastri thinks SKY can excel as India's T20I skipper and expects to see him adapt his dynamic batting skills to the role that he has been handed. "We know he is street smart...he is one of the best T20 players in the world at the moment. He is a match-winner on his own, walks into the team day in, day out in that format of the game on his own steam, so I think it is not a bad idea at all," Shastri said.India play the first of three T20Is against Sri Lanka on Saturday, July 27 in Pallekele.