New Delhi, March 17 It was her straightforward question that motivated him to work hard for a national call-up. And now that Suryakumar Yadav is the captain of a World Cup-winning team, he couldn't praise his "brutally honest" wife, Devisha, enough for shaping the man he has become.
It was in 2018 when Devisha asked Suryakumar a simple question: "If you want to play for India, how do you plan to do it?"
Eight years since that "brutally honest conversation", Suryakumar led India to a successful defense 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 until 2018 when I joined Mumbai Indians. I think we started doing things a little differently," Suryakumar recalled during a podcast interview with '
