Suryakumar Yadav was out of all kind of competitive Cricket since December. He was in rehab for three months in Bengaluru.

Suryakumar Yadav
Suryakumar had injured his ankle during the South Africa tour in December and was also diagnosed with a sports hernia that needed surgery in January. Since then, he's spent much of the past three months in Bengaluru with the NCA's medical staff. He stated that fully immersing himself into the rehab process has helped him "grow as a person and athlete".

"It's a little difficult to describe the last three months,"Suryakumar told the official IPL website. "It has helped me grow as a person and athlete. For the first two-three weeks. I felt very bored doing the same thing during rehab. From the fourth and fifth week onwards, I realised it is important going forward. It was important to decide how I wanted to come back."

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

"I'd never read a book in my life, but I started doing that as well. Getting up in the morning, spending good quality time at the rehab centre, focusing on everything, connecting myself, my brain and body with the rehab, it helped me really well to recover faster because I had two-three niggles together."

"It's always difficult sitting and watching when your team is playing," he said. "I watched half the games, because I was sleeping on time, by 10-10.30. I used to watch only half the innings. Of course, I'd watch the whole game next day."

"It was difficult, but it gave me a lot go motivation and inspiration looking at them that they're playing there, and I have to work hard on my recovery to get there as soon as possible."