'Only two people?': Suryakumar Yadav's press conference before captaincy debut in IND vs AUS T20Is disappoints netizens

Only two reporters showed up for Suryakumar Yadav"s pre-match press conference ahead of the 5-match series-opening T20I against Australia at Visakhapatnam.

Sports    23-Nov-2023
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It seems apart from players and support staff involved in the World Cup, the journalists and reporters are feeling the fatigue. Just three days after the hectic World Cup final, journalists could not come for the upcoming bilateral series. 
 
 
This comes after only two reporters showed up for India's pre-match press conference ahead of the 5-match series-opening T20I against Australia at Visakhapatnam. This might have been the first instance in which only two journalists were present for a men's Indian cricket team match at home.
 
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A press conference with Australia's captain for this series, Matthew Wade, was also scheduled for Wednesday afternoon but it appears that it did not take place. Whether it was due to a lack of journalists, however, was not confirmed.
 
"Only two people?" said India's captain for the five-match T20I series, Suryakumar Yadav with a big smile before wrapping up the four-minute-long press meet on Wednesday. You could sense the amazement in his laughter.
 
 
Notably, Indian cricketers have to pull up their socks for almost hour-long press conferences and multiple questions. Most of the time, even that is not enough as many are left with their questions unanswered often. But not on Wednesday.
 
The two reporters might have been from news agencies PTI and ANI who took turns to ask multiple questions to Suryakumar.
 

But why?

 
The barely three-day gap between the World Cup final and the first IND vs AUS T20I appears to be the reason behind the development.
 

What did Suryakumar Yadav say?

 
Surya, who could have done more in India's near-perfect campaign in the World Cup, was expectedly asked about the ill-fated Sunday night on the eve of the T20 series opener. "It is difficult it will take time, it can't be that you wake up next morning and you forget everything what happened. It was a long tournament. We would have loved to win it," said Surya, who will lead the side in Hardik Pandya's absence.
 
"But as you get up in the morning the sun rises again, there is light at the end of the tunnel. You have to move on. It is a fresh team (T20 squad), really looking forward to the challenge. "Surya said support from the fans and families is helping him and the rest of the players to move on from the disappointment."Obviously, a little disappointing but when you look back at the journey it was a great campaign. All of India and our families were proud of the way everyone displayed their talent on the ground.
 
"We played a positive brand of cricket throughout the tournament. We can be very proud of that," said the aggressive batter.
 
Surya, Ishan Kishan and Prasidh Krishna are the only members of India's World Cup squad who have been selected for this series. The others have been given a break. Shreyas Iyer will join the squad after the third T20I.
 
Netizens were quite disappointed about this development-
 
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