India will take on South Africa in four T20Is from November 8. Suryakumar Yadav would lead the Men in Blue with a hope of winning the upcoming series. Apart from captaincy, he is also the best batter of India National Cricket Team in the shortest format of the game. SKY is on the verge of scripting history.
Suryakumar Yadav has 346 runs against South Africa . If he amasses 156 runs in this series, he will complete 502 T20I runs against the rival unit. He will become the leading run-getter against South Africa in T20I history. He will go post England’s Jonny Bairstow who has scored 501 runs.
Batters with most runs against South Africa in T20Is
Jonny Bairstow- 501
Jos Buttler- 498
David Warner- 471
Rohit Sharma- 429
Martin Guptill- 424
Rohit Sharma accumulated 429 runs against South Africa, the most by an Indian batter. Suryakumar Yadav needs 84 runs to surpass Rohit and become the top run-scorer against the Proteas. Rohit retired from T20Is after winning the ICC T20 World Cup 2024.
Indians batters with the most runs against South Africa in T20Is
Rohit Sharma- 429
Virat Kohli- 394
Suryakumar Yadav- 346
Suresh Raina- 339
Shikhar Dhawan- 233
India squad for T20I series against South Africa
Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Rinku Singh, Tilak Varma, Jitesh Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Avesh Khan, Yash Dayal.