Suryakumar Yadav links up with Mumbai Indians for IPL. WATCH

Suryakumar Yadav finally joined up with his Indian Premier League franchise Mumbai Indians, a video shared by the team’s X account revealed on Friday.

“Jiska humein tha intezaar..सूर्या दादा is here, Paltan!,” the MI X account posted in the caption of the video in which SKY can be seen getting out of a car in a white shirt and dark sunglasses.

A couple of days ago, the Indian Express had reported that the batter was declared fit and is likely to feature in Mumbai Indians’ next IPL game against Delhi Capitals at the Wankhede Stadium on Sunday.

Jiska humein tha intezaar.. 🤩🤌

सूर्या दादा is here, Paltan! 💙#MumbaiMeriJaan #MumbaiIndians | @surya_14kumar pic.twitter.com/eL98y970Pe

— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) April 5, 2024

The National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru cleared the middle-order batsman, who had missed more than three months of cricket, on Wednesday. The BCCI and the physios at the NCA didn’t want to take any chances and satisfied themselves thoroughly before giving Yadav the go-ahead.

“He is fit now. The NCA made him play a few practice games and he looked good. He can join the Mumbai Indians team. We wanted to be sure that when Surya goes back to MI, he is 100 percent fit and ready to play games. He wasn’t feeling 100% during his first fitness Test before the IPL, so we waited to see if there was any pain while he was batting,” a source in the BCCI confirmed, adding that the batsman had to undergo three fitness tests.

Yadav had suffered a grade II tear in his ankle during the T20I series in South Africa, and was initially ruled out for seven weeks. However, another injury surfaced subsequently and he had to undergo a hernia operation, which had kept him out of action till now.

The availability of the batter will act as a boost to Mumbai Indians who have had a tough time in this year’s IPL failing to win any of the three matches they have played.

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