Suryakumar Yadav: Under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav, Team India has created history in its very first match of T20 World Cup 2026. In this match played at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, India defeated USA by 29 runs. With this victory, Team India has broken South Africa’s record in terms of winning consecutive matches in the T20 World Cup.

Indian team created history under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav

Under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav, Team India has reached the top in terms of winning the most consecutive matches in the T20 World Cup. India has destroyed South Africa’s record. This is India’s 9th consecutive victory in the T20 World Cup.

Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, Team India won the T20 World Cup 2024 title without losing any match. India had won 8 consecutive matches in the last T20 World Cup 2024. Whereas one of India’s matches was lost due to rain. At the same time, South Africa also won 8 consecutive matches in T20 World Cup 2024. After this, South Africa had to face defeat against India in the final.

Suryakumar Yadav played an unbeaten inning of 84 runs.

In the first match of T20 World Cup 2026, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh and Shivam Dubey all flopped, but Suryakumar Yadav played the captaincy innings. Surya played an unbeaten inning of 84 runs on 49 balls. Tilak Verma scored 25 runs on 16 balls. Team India had scored 161 runs for 9 wickets. In reply, USA team could score only 132 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. Mohammad Siraj took 3 wickets for India. While Arshdeep Singh and Akshar Patel took 2-2 wickets. Whereas Varun Chakraborty got a success.

Suryakumar Yadav completed his 1000 runs as captain in T20 International. With this he marked the entry of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni into the club.