LSG's Mayank Yadav explains injury return in IPL 2025: No changes in my strategy

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LSG pace sensation Mayank Yadav says he’s stuck to his strengths in IPL 2025 after returning from a long injury layoff that sidelined him since the 2024 season.

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00:01I didn't do anything in my balling.

00:03Like, I had a major injury.

00:06I was out of cricket for 5-6 months.

00:09So, the normal body will adapt.

00:12And it will take its own time.

00:14So, I feel like I need time to give my balling to my body.

00:17So, the speed is back.

00:19I thought that you saw the balling at the speed.

00:26You saw the performance of the speed.

00:30So, what is the strategy of this match?

00:34I don't have a drastic change.

00:39My focus is what I used to do.

00:41I have a lot of time.

00:45I have a lot of time.

00:46The intensity, the pressure, the match pressure.

00:49I have not seen from the board time.

00:51So, it is very normal.

00:53If my body responds differently.

00:56So, I feel very normal.

00:58Especially after a major injury.

01:00So, I don't have a different mindset or intent.

01:05My intent will be the same.

01:07But, what happens when you read wickets or batsmen

01:12will be a major change.

01:14So, how will you look at this match?

01:17So, what goes on, is that the match is good.

01:18You're looking at the outcome of the confidence.

01:19It's all difficult to return.

01:20Has that much of a casual team,

01:21You're looking at the ended-up.

01:22What is the feeling,

01:23You're looking at LF TK?

01:24I see, what happens when you look at the end of the match.

01:26So, that the match is a lot of meetings.

01:27The results are very late,

01:28and they have had the same competition.

01:29So, I think that the match is very late.

01:32I think we have had some mistakes.

01:35I think we had a little late wickets or ground that we had a little late in the game.

01:40I think that we had a little mistakes, so I'll accept that.

01:45But I feel like we still have three matches and if we win that,

01:49there might be a chance where we can make it to a playoff.

01:54Last year, you were a match for last year.

01:57Last year, you were a match for last year.

01:59Do you feel like you were a match for last year?

02:02Maybe.

02:04Do you feel like you were a match for last year?

02:07I don't have a match for last year.

02:11Yesterday, we had a practice here.

02:14So, if you were a match for the wicket,

02:17you would have just made a plan.

02:20Did you prepare for last year,

02:23or do you have a match for last year?

02:27My USP and I feel like

02:33I don't have a match for the wicket.

02:35I don't have a match for every wicket.

02:37You can use your ball in every wicket.

02:40So, it's just me.

02:41I feel like the wicket we got yesterday,

02:43and the best ball that I can do,

02:45I'll put it more than that.

02:46You know,

02:47I've noticed that you are a match for last year.

02:50You know,

02:51I've noticed that,

02:52you can know,

02:53you can know some of their problems,

02:54mental state.

02:55It feels that pressure is really getting

02:56really up.

02:57It feels like,

02:58it's 27 crore pressure,

02:59it's the expectations of the pressure,

03:00it's not a problem.

03:02You can know,

03:03Can you tell us about the second thing about the time in the NC and the Center of Excellence?

03:08Can you tell us about the process?

03:10Because the judgment will come and the speed will not come.

03:15It will take time and then the time will come.

03:17Can you tell us about two things?

03:19I know that we played the same club in Delhi.

03:23But when I talk about them, I don't feel like they have pressure or something.

03:29Everybody confidently talk to me about the game, about the situation, about the batsmen.

03:34So, I don't feel like they have pressure or something to talk about.

03:41What do you think of the Center of Excellence?

03:43The Center of Excellence was very good.

03:47I have been working with the trainer and the physiologist.

03:51It was very helpful to me.

03:53And it was very important to me that if I play in IPL or tournament or not, it was not confirmed.

03:59So, we just tried to make sure that if we can do it, then it was successful.

04:05It was very good.

04:07Two last questions.

04:08I have been working with the team and the team.

04:10But when you were in the team, you would have to do the same thing.

04:12You would have to do the same thing with the variations.

04:14So, what about your team?

04:16What are you doing at MCA?

04:18I do not.

04:19I was doing the same thing with slow rounds.

04:21I did the same thing with variation.

04:22I did the same thing in the last year.

04:24I didn't need to do that.

04:25I played two or four matches.

04:28The main demand was the same thing.

04:31I used to put a good ball and a good ball.

04:33So, I didn't have to use variation.

04:35Last question.

04:46Team matches are key.

04:49Team matches are key.

04:51Match, you have to be creative.

04:56You have to be creative.

04:58What do you think about team matches?

05:02What do you think about team matches?

05:05What do you think about team matches?

05:09My team.

05:12My or team?

05:13My?

05:14My mindset is that I can contribute to the team.

05:18In the last match, my spell was especially expensive.

05:21And I always think that if I am balling,

05:26I would like to be a striker and wicket-taking bowler.

05:31So I would like to contribute to the team.

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