- By Himanshu Badola
- Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:35 PM (IST)
- Source:PTI
Two days after captaining India to a T20 World Cup title, Suryakumar Yadav is slowly taking in the enormity of the achievement that has put him in the august company of Kapil Dev, M S Dhoni and Rohit Sharma, who too helped the team lift ICC trophies. Soon after returning from Ahmedabad, where India won a record third T20 World Cup title on Sunday, Suryakumar reflected on the side's successful campaign and the road ahead.
"It feels good to win 24 and 26 back-to-back. It is a very special feeling. When we won in 2024, we thought it would be so special to do this again at home in 2026.
"The next target is to win the Olympic gold in 2028. The team has a good momentum. If India wins the T20 World Cup in the same year, it will be great."
On being compared to the likes of Rohit and Dhoni, he added, "It feels good to join that elite company. I am slowly feeling it. It is a very special feeling to be talked about among such great people. I will try to do the same in the future and help India win more trophies.
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Rohit was the captain when India ended an ICC trophy drought with the win in Barbados back in June 2024. Dhoni led India to victories in the 2007 T20 World Cup and the 2011 ODI World Cup. Kapil Dev's team won the 1983 ODI World Cup, the first major title for the country.
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India entered the tournament as massive favourites. Despite not being at their best in the initial phase, India maintained their dominance and won all of their matches in the group stage. They suffered a setback with a heavy defeat in their first Super 8 match against South Africa in Ahmedabad. On the back of an incredible batting effort, India ended up winning the rest of the matches, including the final, to lift the historic title.
"I think it’ll take a little bit of time (has it sunk in yet?), but I'm definitely very happy with what has happened today. It has been a long journey," Indian captain Suryakumar said at the post-match presentation in Ahmedabad.
"I think we knew that we were playing some good cricket throughout the two years, and it was going really well. We just wanted to follow all the good habits that we followed in the 2024 T20 World Cup. Tell the boys the same thing: what is the feeling of winning a World Cup, how do we want to play in the bilateral series, what taste we want to take forward and go on to play a T20 World Cup. I think that was actually imbibed by everyone, to the team and the boys took it really well," he added.