IPL 2024: How Mumbai Indians star batter Suryakumar Yadav battled three different injuries in three months

Swashbuckling Mumbai Indians batter Suryakumar Yadav opened up about his struggle with injuries and how he went through the recovery process.

Yadav, who rejoined his Mumbai Indians team last week, talked about his injuries, including a sports hernia, an ankle problem, and a right knee injury.

"I had two-three niggles together, sports hernia, ankle and then right knee. I had to take one step at a time, follow the small things, and here I am, really happy to be on the ground," Yadav opened up in a video released by IPL.





The world No.1 T20 batter also said that it was "boring" for him to follow the same routine during rehab work at the start, but then he made the most of this opportunity.

"It's actually a little difficult to describe the last three (or) three-and-a-half months. It was difficult, the first two-three weeks, because I felt (it was) very boring doing the same things again and again (in) the rehab," he said.

"But (by) the fourth-fifth week, I realised that it is important going forward."

Yadav also shared how having a having a conversation with his wife and support staff at NCA helped him a lot.

"When I spoke to my wife and all the people at NCA, they said it has to be a second version of yourself, you have to be a little different when you come back on the field. I started doing all those small things like sleeping on time, following a good diet — that was most important," he said.

"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 really well to recover a little faster," he added.

"I wanted to be a better version of myself, when I got injured, I realised what were the things I wanted to work on. I got 2-3 months to work on myself in terms of fitness and on my body as well,” he said.

Yadav also praised his coaches and staff at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru for supporting him during his recovery phase.

"I am really grateful to the support staff at NCA, everyone, right from trainers to physios who took care of me right from the morning. They took everything, whatever I said.

"A few days I was feeling angry to do the rehab but then they took that in their stride and understood really well how I wanted to work," he added.