MELBOURNE: How do you bowl to Suryakumar Yadav? Try the wide yorker and he will open the face of the bat and run it down to third man. Bowl full and straight and he will clear the front leg and strike it over mid-off. If you were thinking bowling a middle-and leg line will cramp him, Yadav will just go down on one knee and scoop over his head. And a full toss is an open invitation for mayhem.
Perth or Melbourne, cold or warm, Yadav just doesn't let the conditions influence his batting. In what has been a highly unpredictable T20 World Cup, he has proved one refreshing constant.
But this is a team game. On the day South Africa were knocked out of the World Cup by Netherlands, cricket was reminding everyone what a great leveller it can be. Every team had slipped on the banana peel by then, barring India. With Pakistan finishing with a better run rate after beating Bangladesh, India qualifying the moment South Africa lost, had to win against Zimbabwe to emerge Group 2 toppers.
They won by 71 runs to set up a semi-final date with England in Adelaide on Thursday. Halfcenturies by KL Rahul and Yadav fired India to 186/5 before six bowlers combined to dismiss Zimbabwe for 115 and wrap up victory in 17.2 overs.
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