The T20 World Cup 2024 winner and India’s top-ranked T20I batter, Suryakumar Yadav on Monday, July 8 revealed the best catch of his life, cleverly taking a dig at his match-changing catch from the T20 World Cup 2024 finale in Barbados. SKY, as he is fondly called, who celebrated his eighth wedding anniversary on July 7, took to Instagram to share a post and cleverly take a dig at the crucial catch.
In the T20 World Cup 2024 finale, Suryakumar Yadav’s boundary catch of David Miller changed the tide of the do-or-die fixture in favour of the Men in Blue. In a post on Instagram where he shared snippets of his anniversary celebrations, wrote, “Yesterday marked 8 days since THAT catch but my most important catch was actually 8 years ago! 8 years ago, ∞ years to go.”
While the post has garnered more than 1.1 million likes at the time of writing, his wife Devisha Shetty also replied on it with emojis. “❤️🪬” Devisha replied. Apart from her, R Ashwin’s wife Prithi Narayanan, Yuzvendra Chahal’s wife Dhanashree Verma, Axar Patel, among others also reacted.
The Indian batter, who joined the celebrations with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, opened up on what was going on in his mind while attempting the catch. “At that moment I did not think whether I would be able to catch the ball or not and once the ball came in my hand, I had pick it up and pass it to the other side… We have practiced this thing a lot,” SKY said.
Furthermore, Team India captain Rohit Sharma also opened up on this crucial catch at the Maharashtra Vidhan Bhavan last week. “After Surya caught the ball, he told me that the bat sat in his hand. Thank goodness, it sat in his hand. Otherwise, I would have sat him out,” Rohit said at the assembly, leaving everyone in splits.