Suryakumar Yadav opens up about his wife's impact on his career

Suryakumar Yadav and his wife Devisha Shetty (Pic: Instagram)

Suryakumar Yadav opened up about his wife's impact on his cricket career. The Indian World Cup-winning captain got married to his wife, Devisha Shetty, on July 7, 2016, and the couple have been together since 2010.

While discussing Devisha's impact on his career, Suryakumar Yadav praised her 'brutally honest' opinion that shaped his career.

Devisha's straightforward question that shaped Suryakumar Yadav's career

"If you want to play for India, how do you plan to do it?" was the straightforward question Devisha posed to Suryakumar in 2018. After that "brutally honest conversation" eight years ago, Suryakumar guided India to a successful defence of the T20 World Cup title.

"We got married in 2016 when I was still playing for KKR. Everything was going very smoothly. I was playing well, enjoying, and she looked at my journey and my routines till 2018 when I joined the Mumbai Indians. I think we started doing things a little differently," Suryakumar said in an interview with PTI.
"She told me that all those who played with you in age group, a lot of them are now playing for India. What do you have in mind? I said: 'Mujhe bhi India khelna hai (I want to play for India too)'. 'Kaise kheloge' (how do you plan to do it?), she asked.

"It was a nice little conversation with her, not an argument but a discussion. But yes, it was a discussion about how can you take one extra step forward in your endeavour. If I want to play for India and want to win games for India, how do I do it?" The 35-year-old revealed.

As a pair, Suryakumar and Devisha made some difficult life decisions after deciding to go one step further in achieving their ultimate objective.

"In 2018, I got a chance to open for the Mumbai Indians, and I got runs too, Come 2019 and 2020, we kept doing the same thing, and I was in a different mood. She saw that he has started enjoying even more, 2020 was even better (480 runs as finisher) and then in 2021 I got picked for India," Suryakumar added.

(With PTI Input)