Indian middle-order batter Suryakumar Yadav's current situation as India's best Twenty20 International (T20I) batter has been reaffirmed. He has become India's highest run-scorer in a single calendar year, scoring 732 runs, surpassing senior opener Shikhar Dhawan's 689 in 2018. Suryakumar, who lacerated one of his fairest T20I half-centuries against South Africa on a seaming track at the Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday, is just 24 runs short of conducting 1,000 T20I runs. This year, his strike rate is a whopping 180.29, while his career strike rate is 173.35 across 32 T20Is, having already hit 57 sixes and 88 fours.