India head coach Gautam Gambhir isn’t concerned about T20I captain Suyrakumar Yadav’s dry run with the bat, considering they have adopted an “ultra-aggressive template” that is bound to lead to failures, and the management isn’t focused on individual runs. For Gambhir, when Suryakumar finds his purple patch, he will shoulder the responsibility.

The management passed down the captaincy mantle to Suryakumar after Rohit Sharma hung up his boots in the T20Is following the conclusion of India’s unbeaten T20 World Cup-winning campaign last year. With the captaincy responsibilities on his shoulders, the 34-year-old has played 22 matches, scoring 330 runs at an average of 18.33 while striking at 142.85.

Runs continued to elude Suryakumar’s bat even during India’s unbeaten run to the Asia Cup tit

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