Last Updated: April 06, 2023, 13:27 IST
Suryakumar Yadav;s poor run continues. (Pic Credit: Sportzpics)
Since hitting a T20I century against Sri Lanka in January, Suryakumar Yadav has suffered a dip in form, across formats
“He (Surya) is probably in that phase now where he needs to do something. But the secret of it all is not to panic and not to change your game plan. He has got to stick to what has been working for him over the years.
“Yes, maybe, he can try and remember ‘what are my basics’ or ‘what did I do very well when I was just consistently scoring runs’ and because obviously he took his game to a completely different level,” De Villiers said.
De Villiers said Suryakumar will have to forget the expectations on him.
“It is not a bad thing just to come a level down and spend a little time in there before you pop out again. You cannot always score 100 off 40 balls it is not always going to happen.”
Expectations can bog a player down and he had learnt it from his own experiences and especially the kind of performances that RCB supporters always wanted from him.
“That is something I had to learn the hard way with the Chinnaswamy crowd going, expecting me to score a hundred in every game. I sometimes had to tell myself, “you know what AB let’s be honest here, you are not reading the ball very.
“Just make sure you go run-a-ball and give Virat the strike or just get someone else on’. And then slowly and surely I get one good shot and then I am back in the game,” he said.
“There will always be a sign when you get into good form; there will be a bad delivery from the bowler or you will hit a good straight drive and then you can be say hold on, I am back in form and let’s hurt the bowlers”.
Batting is pretty similar to driving a car and De Villiers explained why.
“You just have to manage the gears I call them gears between first and the fifth gear, where I am at the moment”. He is probably in the second gear at the moment. Respect the fact that you are in second gear, find a way to get to the third and you can push from there,” concluded De Villiers.
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