The lost puzzle of Bombay Indians‘ batting order, Indian white-ball specialist Suryakumar Yadav is back and is excited to play his first match of the 2024 season. MI, who are playing their first season under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya, they were desperate to get it back after losing 3 of their first 3 games. Upon his return, Surya spoke to Anjum Chopra and there expressed her enthusiasm for arranging his return. His tie against him Capitals of Delhi It will be important and could be a match where MI can find some positive momentum and hopefully get their first win of the season.
Suryakumar Yadav will play his first competitive match against Delhi Capitals for the first time since December 2023. During India’s all-format tour of South Africa last time in December 2023, Surya captained the team in the 3-match T20I series. matches. After the first T20 was destroyed, Surya scored 56 runs in the second T20I at Gqeberha, which the Indians eventually lost by 5 wickets. Then, in the third T20 in Johannesburg, the right-handed batsman scored his fourth century in the shortest format as India took victory by 106 runs.
Why was Surya away for 2-3 months?
However, while playing in the second innings, Suryakumar Yadav suffered an ankle injury and was eventually ruled out of the 3-match ODI series. In his absence, KL Rahul captained the team and India won the series 2-1. While recovering from the ankle injury, Surya contracted a sports hernia which further hampered his progress and he was eventually ruled out for 2-3 months. And it was not until last week that NCA officials gave him the green light to join MI and play IPL 2024.
Suryakumar Yadav says he was mentally in the MI camp
Anjum Chopra asked Suryakumar Yadav to describe his feelings on returning to the cricket field and joining the MI camp. The 33-year-old claimed that he might have been recovering from his illness in the NCA, but mentally he was always with his IPL teammates. “Absolutely. I mean, I missed it a lot. For the last 2 or 3 weeks I was mentally here but physically somewhere else, but to come here, wear this jersey and come back to the stadium, it feels really good.” – Surya told Anjum Chopra via IPLT20.com
Suryakumar Yadav then spoke about his return to the Wankhede Stadium and how excited he was for his first scoring session. SKY narrated that the night he joined the team in Mumbai, he was very eager to get up the next morning and go to the nets. As soon as he returned, Surya claimed that he felt as if he had never left.
“Yes. I remember I came here 1 or 2 days ago at night and the next day I was very eager to wake up in the morning and go to Wankhede to practice and when I came back here for the first net session, I didn’t feel like if I had been away from cricket for so long.” – concluded Surya,