“It’s difficult to say…”: Mohammed Shami opens up on return to international cricket

Indian pacer Mohammed Shami is still not sure when he would be able to come back to international cricket and play for the Indian team again, but he has decided to make his comeback through domestic cricket. Shami, who last featured for India during the 2023 ODI World Cup and has been recovering from an ankle surgery which he underwent in February, has started to bowl at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru.

“It’s difficult to say when I will be back. I am trying hard but hopefully you will get to see me in Bengal colours before I don the India jersey again,” Shami said.

“I will come to play two-three matches for Bengal and will come fully prepared for it,” he added.

The pacer also opened up about his injury and said that it came to hurt him at a time when he was trying to recover from India’s ODI World Cup final defeat to Australia.

“We never thought the injury would be this serious. The plan was to address it after the T20 World Cup since we had the IPL and the ICC T20 mega event coming almost back-to-back after last year’s World Cup. But it turned worse during the ODI World Cup itself and I also did not find it right to risk playing on with it. Even the doctors could not fathom that the injury will take such a serious turn and will take so much time to heal,” the 33-year old said.

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