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Zero sugar, zero gluten, zero lactose – what fuelled Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s return
Veteran seamer last played for India four years ago but always had the drive for excellence, which prompted him to make big sacrifices to regain swing, which had been his hallmark in his heyday
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“I want to be like that again. Will it be possible?”
A few months had passed in calm silence. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and his physio Ramneesh Vohra had not let their association be disrupted by the snub that struck him 12 days after India’s 2022 T20 World Cup semi-final exit. He was taken off the national radar after a New Zealand tour. His 37 T20I wickets in 2022 remain the most by an Indian man in a calendar year.
“We met regularly but never had a word about it for almost 2-3 months,” Ramneesh, a BCCI-qualified physiotherapist, tells The Indian Express from his clinic in Noida. “We never discussed what went wrong.”