New Delhi. Suryakumar Yadav Eyes on Breaking Rohit Virat Record: The Indian team under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav is going to play a four-match T20I series on South African soil. The four-match T20I series is to begin from November 8. The 'Men in Blue' have reached Durban for this series, where the first T20 match is to be played.

After the crushing defeat in the Test series at the hands of New Zealand, Team India has now moved on to the next mission. As a full-time captain, Surya would like to score a hat-trick of wins in this series.

Earlier, under his captaincy, Team India defeated Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in the T20 series. At the same time, in the first T20I match itself, captain Surya will be eyeing to break the T20I records of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. Let's know about these records.

IND vs SA 1st ODI: Suryakumar Yadav has a golden chance to break Rohit-Virat's T20I record

Actually, Suryakumar Yadav, known as Mr. 360 degree, is going to captain India on the South Africa tour. The first match of the four-match T20I series between India and South Africa will be played on November 8. In the first T20I match, Surya is eyeing to break the record of Rohit-Virat. Surya is close to becoming the highest run-scorer Indian batsman against South Africa.

So far, he has scored a total of 346 runs in 7 T20 matches against South Africa. Now he needs 49 runs to leave Virat Kohli behind, while Surya needs 84 runs to surpass Rohit Sharma. Currently, South Africa's highest run scorer is David Miller, who has scored 452 runs in 21 matches.

Suryakumar Yadav can join the special club by hitting 6 sixes

If Surya hits 6 sixes in the first T20I match against South Africa, he will join the club of Rohit Sharma and Martin Guptill. In this way, Surya will complete his 150 sixes in this format. He will become only the third cricketer to reach this figure.

Before this, only Rohit Sharma and Martin Guptill have been able to do this. Suryakumar currently has 144 sixes in T20 International cricket. Rohit has hit 205 sixes in this format. Martin Guptill is in second place with 173 sixes.

Team India for South Africa tour is as follows-

Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Vijaykumar Vishak, Avesh Khan, Yash Dayal.