India’s swing king Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s career has been hampered by the number of injuries and even the last one – groin injury that he picked up during the home T20I series against West Indies last December has kept him out of the national colors till the date.
The groin injury was later diagnosed to be a sports hernia, which forced him to miss the last New Zealand tour at the beginning of this year. He underwent the surgery for a sports hernia in London in January and then began his rehabilitation at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru.
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However, the 30-year-old pacer, who has played 21 Tests, 114 ODIs and 43 T20Is for India so far, was drafted back into the India squad for the three-match ODI series against South Africa which was canceled due to the outbreak of coronavirus in India in March.
Recently, Bhuvneshwar had an Instagram chat with his Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) captain David Warner on Friday (April 24) where he admitted that it is challenging to make comeback after injuries especially to get back the pre-injury rhythm.
However, the pacer said things could be easier if teammates and team management are supportive, and he is lucky in that case, but it is still harder to come back given the abundant talent in the country.
Bhubaneswar told Warner during the Instagram chat, “You always need support from the management and the team and (I'm) lucky to have support from the management.”
He further explained, “It is very difficult being a fast bowler especially when you play all the three formats. It gets difficult at times. Injury is something that is always associated with fast bowlers. But what's more difficult is to come back with the same rhythm that you were in.
Kumar signed off by saying, “And especially in India there are so many players, so many first-class teams and so many talented players, they are always in line to play. So, when you come back, you have things in mind like you have to be in rhythm like what were you in (earlier), so it gets difficult.”
(With PTI Inputs)
