“I remember MS Dhoni wasn't in the best of form” - Robin Uthappa opens up on Suryakumar Yadav’s selection for T20 WC

Former Indian cricketer Robin Uthappa has opened up on the Indian T20I skipper Suryakumar Yadav making it to the Indian squad for the T20 World Cup 2026 despite not being amongst the runs of late.

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Speaking on his YouTube channel, Uthappa took an example of former Indian skipper MS Dhoni playing the World Cup despite not being in good form. Moreover, he went on to add that Suryakumar is not out of form, but is out of runs instead.

"I remember that Dhoni wasn't in the best of form. If I'm not wrong, I don't think he got more than one or two fifties in the entire World Cup, and the final was one of those. He was not in very good form. It's happened before, where teams have carried important players who were not in good form because of what they can potentially do; they're match-winners,” Robin Uthappa said on his YouTube channel.

Furthermore, Uthappa also revealed the reason why Suryakumar isn’t out of form but is out of runs, giving an example of his excellent shots in the nets, hitting sixes over third man, like he usually does in the IPL. Also, he talked about the Indian skipper’s batting technique changes in the recently concluded South Africa series, which India won by 3-1.

"I don't think SKY is out of form. People who haven't played cricket at a certain level will not understand when we're saying he's not out of form, he's out of runs. Ollie Pope is out of form, Shubman Gill looks out of form. In this series, I've watched SKY bat in the nets. Boy, he was hitting shots in the fog. He was hitting full-length balls over third man for six. Like what he did in the IPL, he was doing that, off the front foot. You can't do that if you're not in form,” he added.

"One thing I did notice about his batting when he came in to bat in the first T20I, his technique has changed. The way he sets himself up has changed. It felt weird, and by the third game, he came back to his old technique,” he concluded. 

India’s T20 World Cup 2026 Squad: Suryakumar Yadav (c), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Sanju Samson (wk), Shivam Dube, Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Rinku Singh.

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