Team India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak has backed underfire captain Suryakumar Yadav, saying that he is playing selfless cricket as well. He said ahead of the third T20I between India and England in Rajkot on Tuesday, January 28 as well. However, Suryakumar faced a three-ball duck in the first game, followed by a seven-ball 17 in Chennai on January 25 as well.

While talking about this on the eve of the third T20I, Kotak said via India Today: “Surya, I think he is performing, but sometimes I feel we also expect a lot. Every game, if we think Surya will perform (that is not okay). The game has become so aggressive, there is so much intent we have to play in the T20s, there will be a time when they get out because they are playing fearless (cricket).”

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“Because if you want to score 200-225, you cannot play cricket where you are trying to save your wickets. Both things do not go hand in hand. He plays a brand of cricket for the team which is very, very selfless, and that is what he tells the batters as well. There are games he will perform, and there are games where he will not,” Kotak further added.

Sitanshu Kotak further said that a big knock from Suryakumar Yadav’s bat will come soon as well.

“I think that he has been batting with the same flow, I would not say there is any change really. But plan-wise, opposition sides will bowl in areas (to target him), but he is very smart and will read that, and practice according to that. I think, touchwood (he would score) in this game,” he concluded.