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Boom, Boom, BACK!

By Vineet Anantharaman

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Woohooo!!!! 2023 seriously couldn’t have started on a more positive note. 

Four months. That’s how long it’s been since we’ve seen yorkers destroying stumps. That walking start to the runup. That sprit. That load up. That high, straight arm. That backward flex of the elbow. That awkward angle. That ball coming down at 145 clicks. Those poor batters hopping around. Ah, we’ve missed him. 

Jasprit Bumrah, our very own Boom, has been added to India’s ODI squad for their home series against Sri Lanka. Boom was nursing a stress fracture in his back. In the T20 series against Australia leading up to the T20 World Cup, he pulled up. What followed was rehab, weeks of it at the NCA. From nursing, to healing, to strengthening, to running, to bowling, to getting match fit. It’s been a long four months.

He’s back now, fitter, stronger, hungrier. ** Boom, Boom, Boomraaahhhh ** It’s set to ring around the stadiums.

India's updated ODI squad - Rohit Sharma (C), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya (VC), Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Umran Malik, Arshdeep Singh