Two seasons, one title, multiple zing lightings, a zillion memories, a Paltan favourite. HE IS COMING BACK HOME, and we simply cannot keep calm!

Oh, and it needed a proper bidding war to wrestle him back into the Blue and Gold. Rajasthan Royals, his side for the last three years, weren’t letting go of him without a fight! We jumped in at 6.50cr INR, and through multiple rounds of discussions, the padel kept going up. Neither side seemed willing to back down. We in fact had backed out of bids at the last second for Jofra Archer and Josh Hazlewood. We needed a pacer. We needed Boult. We pulled hard, broke the tug of war, and at 12.50 INR, he swung his way into the Wankhede.

It took nearly five hours of waiting. While other teams kept snapping up players, Mumbai Indians were happy to play the waiting game. As they say, patience yields the sweetest fruits, and boy, this was as sweet as it could be. The wait seemed totally worth.

Now imagine this: Twilight at the Wankhede, a fresh pitch, the sea breeze. In he runs, at pace, the left-arm releases the new cherry. And suddenly, just like that, the poor batsman’s defence is breached. Wankhede goes wild! The off-stump is sent cartwheeling. And then the slo mo comes in, you see the swing, first in, and the seaming away after pitching. Oh, we’ve missed this so bad!

#HardikSwagat, Trent Boult!