Virat Kohli namedropped as Rinku Singh exposes reality of Suryakumar Yadav's 'bat le lena' Instagram story

Suryakumar Yadav is all set to lead a young contingent of the Indian side in the upcoming T20I series against Sri Lanka. Rinku Singh is amongst the young players willing to make a mark in the series. The first T20I will be played in Pallekele on Saturday.

SKY was chosen as the captain ahead of Hardik Pandya. The move surprised many however, Ajit Agarkar and Gautam Gambhir tried explaining the reason behind it. They said that Hardik Pandya's fitness was one of the main reasons why he was not chosen as the captain.

They further said that they wanted someone as captain who was more likely to play all the matches and hence went with the option of Suryakumar Yadav. He is India's third-highest run-getter in the format after Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.

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Meanwhile, Rinku Singh in a recent video revealed whether Suryakumar Yadav gave him the bat he asked for. “Theek hai bat le lena," Surya posted an Instagram story with Rinku Singh after Landing in Sri Lanka.

Replying to his story, the youngster wrote, "De do bhaiya bat." Recently, Rinku was asked whether Suryakumar gave him his bat, the batter revealed that he’s yet to receive from him however, he’s using the one given by Kohli.

Rinku Singh Reveals Whether Suryakumar Yadav Gave Him His Bat

“Virat bhai ka bat chal raha hai abhi toh (I'm using Virat Kohli's bat for now),” said Rinku in a video shared by Sports Fact Real on their YouTube channel.

Rinku made an impressive performance in the T20I series against Zimbabwe. He played all the matches but did not bat in all of them. His best performance came in the second T20I where he scored an unbeaten 498 off 22 balls and helped India post 232/2. It was the same match where Abhishek Sharma scored his maiden T20I ton.

Speaking about Suryakumar Yadav, he has led India in even matches so far and have won five out of those. He led India against Australia in a T20I series, just after the ODI World Cup last year. He also drew the T20I series against South Africa earlier this year.

Speaking about the Indian team selected for the T20I series, Rishabh Pant is back in the Indian T20I squad after the T20 World Cup. He and Sanju Samson continue to be the choices for the keeper-batter. Kuldeep Yadav was rested from the T20Is while picked for the ODI side. Yuzvendra Chahal was ignored from selection after recently being a part of India's T20 World Cup winning squad.

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