India pacer Umesh Yadav, who started his IPL career with the Delhi franchise, returned to the Delhi camp after being acquired for his base price of Rs 1 crore in thE mini-auctions, has said that he can ”mostly pull his body for another two to three years” and wants to make a match-winning contribution in the World Test Championship final against New Zealand in June.
”I am 33 now and I know that I can mostly pull my body for another two or three years, and there will be some youngsters who will be arriving (to play). I feel this is just healthy, because it ultimately ends up benefiting the team. ”When you have five or six fast bowlers on a tour of four or five Tests, you can play each one of them for two games to help reduce their stress and workload, so it helps that pack (of fast bowlers) play for longer,’‘ Umesh was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo.
Umesh has bowled more at home than overseas but feels experience helps him to perform in all conditions.
“So I haven’t played much overseas, and I haven’t had much experience of those kinds of wickets. But I’ve played a fair amount of Tests so far and learnt with experience how a particular surface will behave.
”As far as the rest of my career is concerned, thank god that relatively I haven’t had that many injuries. And that is satisfying as a fast bowler, because once a fast bowler starts getting injured (regularly), he tends to start struggling, which ultimately reduces his (playing) life. ”After an injury, there is the recovery, and then you need a rehab, which consumes a lot of time, which you can never get back. But I have lost very little time to injury periods, which has kind of helped me lengthen my career. So I haven’t had to compromise a lot on my pace as well,” he added.
Commenting on the upcoming season of the lucrative league, he expressed: ” “I just want to do well whenever I have the ball in my hand. I will definitely give my best for my team and keep getting better every day.”
Significantly, in 121 IPL games, Umesh has scalped 119 wicket, averaging 30.07.