India, March 23 -- Suryakumar Yadav has been experiencing a phase of poor form lately, and he also looked out-of-sorts in India's recent five-match T20I series vs England, where he managed only 28 runs in five matches. Mumbai Indians face Chennai Super Kings in their IPL 2025 opener on Sunday, and the spotlight will be on India's T20 skipper's form.

Ahead of MI's opener, the 34-year-old received support from IPL captain Hardik Pandya in a press conference. Meanwhile, Suryakumar also joked about his form and claimed that his performances in IPL have been good.

He also revealed that in T20Is for India, he decided to bat at No. 4 as he wanted to try out Tilak Varma ahead of him in the batting order.

"IPL, the form has been good (laughs). ...