Though T20 specialist Suryakumar Yadav has been struggling for runs recently, Mumbai Indians (MI) skipper Hardik Pandya has backed him. Pandya called Suryakumar a match-winner and said the attacking batter is a live wire in the MI dressing room.

“He [Suryakumar] has scored a lot of runs for a lot of years. I am not really concerned about his form or anything. He has been a match-winner for India and Mumbai Indians, and he always brings energy to the team,” Pandya said during MI’s pre-season press conference for IPL-18 at a city hotel on Wednesday.
In 150 IPL games, Suryakumar, 34, has scored 3594 runs, which include a couple of hundreds and 24 half-centuries. While representing the country in 83 matches, the India T20I skipper has scored 2598 runs with four centuries and 21 fifties.