Suryakumar Yadav On Retirement: Captain Suryakumar Yadav's name has now been included in that special list, who have made India win ICC tournaments. Under the captaincy of Surya, Team India's performance was very strong and it won the T20 World Cup 2026 title by defeating New Zealand in Ahmedabad. However, since the beginning of the tournament, there was speculation that 35-year-old Suryakumar Yadav would retire from international cricket after this tournament. Now he himself has exposed this secret.

Suryakumar Yadav's big statement on retirement

After winning the final of T20 World Cup 2026, Indian team captain Suryakumar Yadav gave a humorous answer to the questions being raised regarding retirement in the press conference. Surya, who was present with head coach Gautam Gambhir in the press conference held immediately after the match, said, 'When everything is going so well, then what is the need to think about retirement.' That is, he made it clear that he is not going anywhere and there is still a lot of cricket left.

Suryakumar Yadav told the next target

Suryakumar Yadav also told about his further plans during the press conference. Surya told that now his eyes are on winning the gold medal in the Olympics. He also has his eyes on T20 World Cup 2028. In such a situation, it can be said that Surya wants to play international cricket for at least 2 more years. Because the next edition of T20 World Cup will be played in 2028 hosted by Australia and New Zealand.

The bat did not work in the final

The final match was nothing special for Suryakumar Yadav as a batsman. He was out without opening the account. However, in this tournament he scored a total of 242 runs while playing 9 matches. He was the third highest run scorer for India in the 2026 T20 World Cup. Which also included a half-century, which came in the very first match of the tournament. In that match, he played a match-winning innings under pressure.

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