SKY’s the limit for India in England showdown

Ben Stokes says India’s Twenty20 supernova Suryakumar Yadav “plays some shots where you’re just sort of scratching your head sometimes”. Shane Watson reckons Yadav makes his extravagant strokeplay look “low-risk, even though what he does is high risk”. And England’s captain Jos Buttler has arguably the toughest task in cricket right now: finding a way to limit Yadav’s output to prevent him from launching India to victory in the T20 World Cup semi-final at Adelaide Oval on Thursday. Suryakumar Yadav in blistering form for India. Credit:Getty Images At 32, Yadav - affectionately known as ‘SKY’, an abbreviation of his long name - has burst onto the international scene in the manner of an accelerated Mike Hussey, knowing his game intimately and slotting into India’s short-form team as though he was always destined to be there. For Buttler, who saw plenty of Yadav before he became a fixture for India, the hallmark of his extraordinary array of shots - legitimately capable of finding boundaries in the full 360 degree range - is not the technique behind them but the attitude.

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