Suryakumar Yadav Hathora Village Connection: Very few people would know that the name of the village of T-20 team captain Suryakumar Yadav is Hathoda. Suryakumar, who has been living in Mumbai for many years and pursuing his cricket career, is originally from Ghazipur, adjacent to Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh. Even though he was born in Mumbai (Maharashtra), he has also spent a lot of time in Ghazipur. In this way, Suryakumar Yadav’s ancestral village became the hammer of Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh. His grandfather and some family members still live in Hathora village. We are mentioning Hathora village in this story because in the T20 match between India and New Zealand played at Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium in Raipur on Friday (January 23, 2026), Suryakumar was seen not having a bat but only a hammer in his hand. Even though Ishan Kishan played an inning of 76 runs and due to this India chased the target in 15.2 overs, Surya Kumar Yadav, resident of Hathora, stole all the limelight.

The magic of Surya’s bat worked on the field

Team India T20 captain Surya Kumar Yadav has won the toss and decided to bowl first in the second match of the series.
Batting first, the New Zealand team scored 208 runs for six wickets in 20 overs. Captain Mitchell Santner played an unbeaten inning of 47 runs for New Zealand. New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner had made three changes in the playing 11, but they did not work. Surya Kumar Yadav came in with the dismissal of Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma and started the innings cautiously with Ishan Kishan. As long as Ishan Kishan kept batting explosively, Surya’s bat remained calm.

Surya played a explosive inning of 82 runs.

At the same time, as soon as Ishan Kishan was out, Suryakumar Yadav blasted the Raipur ground while playing the captaincy innings. Captain Suryakumar Yadav played the match-winning inning of 82 not out. During this, he hit fours and sixes. Suryakumar Yadav remained unbeaten on 82 and Shivam Dubey scored 36 runs. Suryakumar Yadav played 37 balls in his innings and scored unbeaten 82 runs. Surya hit 9 fours and 4 powerful sixes in his stormy innings. During this, he scored runs with a strike rate of 221 and helped Team India win by 7 wickets.

Surya’s bat played in difficult times

Surya Kumar Yadav scored a fifty in a T20 International match after waiting for 468 days. It is also important that when Suryakumar Yadav came on the field, Team India was in a lot of trouble. The team had lost 2 wickets for just 6 runs. There was a big target of 209 runs for victory. At the other end, Ishan Kishan, who was batting brilliantly, gave him a chance and kept giving strikes to the cricketer in front.

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