Team India fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar is uncertain about his comeback to cricket with an appropriate course of action to treat the fast bowler”s sports hernia still to be decided. Notably, Kumar” injury resurfaced during the three-match T20I series against West Indies which ruled him out of the ODI series. Shardul Thakur replaced him in the squad.
Meanwhile, Kumar has been struggling with injuries for almost 15 months now since winning the man-of-the-match award in the Johannesburg Test of 2018. He struggled during IPL 2019 and also had to walk away during the high-profile game against Pakistan. Since then, he missed the home series against South Africa and Bangladesh before returning for the series against West Indies.
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Bhuvneshwar Kumar uncertain about his return
But Bhuvneshwar Kumar was diagnosed with a sports hernia post the T20I series against West Indies. With the ICC T20I World Cup in Australia next year, this will be a massive blow to India as the cricketer will have to undergo surgery before starting his rehabilitation. Bhuvneshwar, who hails from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, is not sure about his return to cricket and is currently focusing on getting fully fit.
“First thing is getting fit, and I don”t know when I will get fit,” Bhuvneshwar told PTI in an exclusive interview. “World T20 is still good nine months away. I am not thinking about that,” he added.
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However, the National Cricket Academy”s (NCA) inability to diagnose the sports hernia earlier has left Bhuvneshwar Kumar surprised. Notably, NCA has been in the firing line for quite some time now with star cricketers like Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Hardik Pandya choosing personal trainers over NCA trainers during their recovery process. Bhuvneshwar; however, tried to defend the academy and said that BCCI will take the final call on his recovery process.
“It”s an individual”s responsibility or wishes whether he wants to go to the NCA or not,” Bhuvneshwar said. “It”s up to BCCI as to how they are going to take it. They must have had a chat with the NCA. NCA must have tried their best, but I don”t know what went wrong and why they couldn”t diagnose. Still, I am not the right person to comment on that as it might say something else and BCCI will come up with something else,” Bhuvneshwar concluded.
