How MI’s Tilak Varma overcame injury spell
Updated On: 18 April, 2023 09:00 AM IST | Hyderabad | N Jagannath Das
He played the Mushtaq Ali T20 and Vijay Hazare one-day tournament before the injury in Bangladesh upset his season’s plans
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Tilak Varma during his 30 v KKR at the Wankhede on Sunday. Pic/Ashish Raje
It’s sort of a homecoming for Hyderabad’s promising batter Tilak Varma when Mumbai Indians clash with Sunrisers Hyderabad at Uppal on Tuesday night. A few months ago, this 20-year-old was crestfallen as he was forced to stop playing cricket because of Creatine Phosphokinase (injury or stress to the muscle tissue). As a result, his blossoming career came to a halt—during the India ‘A’ tour of Bangladesh—in December last year. He even had to skip the entire Ranji Trophy season and Hyderabad missed this talented batter. It resulted in their worst-ever finish in the Ranji Trophy, failing to win a single match, leading to relegation to the Plate division. Varma had been the leading run-getter for Hyderabad in the last two seasons.
He played the Mushtaq Ali T20 and Vijay Hazare one-day tournament before the injury in Bangladesh upset his season’s plans. Coach Salam Bayash, who has been nurturing him from a young age, said the injury shattered Varma. “He was disturbed that he could not play cricket for a long time. He was in good form and had hoped to do well in the Ranji Trophy. Instead, he had to go for a long rehab at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore before returning to Hyderabad in April,’’ said Bayash, who runs his cricket camp [Legala Cricket Academy] in Lingampally in Hyderabad.
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