“I had never read a book in my life,” Suryakumar Yadav focused on smaller things while nursing multiple injuries which helped him ‘grow as a person’

Suryakumar Yadav revealed he made major changes to his lifestyle during the road to recovery.

“I had never read a book in my life,” Suryakumar Yadav focused on smaller things while nursing multiple injuries which helped him ‘grow as a person’

Suryakumar Yadav (Image via Imago)

Suryakumar Yadav missed over four months of cricket after an injury during India’s tour of South Africa. Along with the injury, he needed to undergo a sports hernia surgery, which ruled him out further. Now he’s finally back, and revealed what got him through his injury. 

In a video released by the IPL, Suryakumar Yadav spoke about his time at Bengaluru’s National Cricket Academy, where he underwent physiotherapy and rehab. He revealed that he needed to change his entire schedule, which saw him sleeping as early as he could.

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Thanks to that, he could only watch half the matches as he slept by 10:30. He revealed this made him work harder so that he could return to the field as soon as possible. These change in his lifestyle also helped the 33-year-old “grow as a person and athlete“.

I (had) never read a book in my life and I started doing that as well. Getting up in the morning, spending a good quality time at the rehab centre and focusing on everything, connecting myself, my brain and my body with the rehab and it helped me well to recover a little faster.

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Suryakumar Yadav was frustrated during rehab

Suryakumar Yadav spent months at the NCA, recovering from his surgery and injuries, and also he decided to work on becoming better. He revealed that after a chat with the NCA officials and his wife, he needed to do things a bit differently. 

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Suryakumar Yadav (Image via ESPN)

He brought a huge change to his schedule which saw him changing his diet as well. And apart from picking up a book and sleeping on time, Yadav started going to the NCA early in the morning to work on his recovery. Although he wasn’t able to return to cricket before the start of the IPL, he continued with his new lifestyle but the process sometimes frustrated him. 

There were times I'd feel angry, but thanks to the physios and trainers - they understood how I wanted to work.
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Yadav did return for Mumbai Indians in their win over Delhi Capitals, but got out for a duck on his comeback. He will now play feature against Royal Challengers Bengaluru on 11th April, which will be played at the Wankhede Stadium 

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