"Embarrassing": Suryakumar Kumar Dejected As MI Make Bizarre Retirement Decision, Internet Reacts

Suryakumar Yadav seemed unhappy over Mumbai Indians (MI)'s decision to retire out batter Tilak Varma during their IPL 2025 match against the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) on Friday. Tilak, who was MI's impact substitute, had managed just 25 off 23 balls with two boundaries when Mitchell Santner with a career IPL strike-rate of 106 was sent in. MI head coach Mahela Jayawardene said it wasn't nice to retire, but suggested that the decision was a tactical one as Tilak was struggling to time the ball.

Suryakumar, India's T20I captain, was not happy with the move. In a viral video, Jayawardene was seen conveying the message to Suryakumar, who seemed a bit disappointed with Santner replacing Tilak in the penultimate over.

Indian T20i captain Suryakumar Yadav is not happy with the Tilak retire out decision.This is not how u give confidence to youngsters. MI if u still want to win trophies it's high time to sack Hardik and make SKY captain pic.twitter.com/JB4vf9CvBn

The embarrassing decision taken by mumbai indians and hardik Pandya

Even Suryakumar yadav got shocked by this shameful decisionpic.twitter.com/TKxmUSDWGD

Needing 24 runs off the last seven balls in pursuit of a challenging 204, MI opted to retire Tilak, but the strategy didn't work as they managed only 191 for five in their 20 overs, losing the game by 12 runs.

"I think Tilak batted well for us when we lost that wicket and that partnership with Surya and he just wanted to get going but he just couldn't then," Jayawardene said.

"I waited till the last few overs hoping that because he (Tilak) spent some time there so he should have been able to get that hit out of the way but I just felt that at the end that I needed someone fresh to go as he was struggling," he added.

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