I CAN'T DESCRIBE THIS FEELING WHAT WE ACHIEVED TODAY IN ATHLETICS !!!
3 NRs today
2 Nrs yesterday !!
Sub 10.10 in 100 M
Sub 45 in 400 M
8000 done in Deca !!
Pure goosebumps πͺπ»π₯Ή
#IndianAthletics
- 36 years old.
- Playing his 19th season.
- Holding the Purple Cap with 17 wickets.
- Took 3/28 while defending 155.
- Wickets of Gill, Buttler and Sudharsan.
BHUVNESHWAR KUMAR IS MELLOWING WITH TIME. π₯Άπ₯
At 36, Bhuvneshwar Kumar is doing something no fast bowler should manage after 15 years of bending his back. He is reinventing himself in real time, turning the final 5 overs into his territory while still owning the first 6 like no one in tournament history.
7 of his 11 wickets this season have come between 16-20 Overs, 12 overs bowled at exactly 8 an over. The death is where bowlers go to die & he walks out with wickets in his pocket.
The story begins with a plate of food. A couple of years ago, Bhuvneshwar woke up feeling like he had swallowed stones. Bloated, heavy, slow. He started stripping things away. Coffee first, then tea, then dairy, then gluten, then anything that had ever walked or flown. Then the DEXA scans arrived. More muscle, sharper agility, a body that once kept him out for months now carrying him through 5 games in 13 days.
RCB took a punt in late 2024 after 10 years at Sunrisers, paying over 10 crore for a bowler the international cricket had buried. His final season in orange had been painful, pace down, edges not carrying, obituaries written.
But RCB saw something beyond the speed gun. A man who understood pressure like a sailor understands tides, who could stand at his mark in 17th over & know exactly which ball would break the game.
Last season he did not just bowl, he taught. Yash Dayal from one end, Josh Hazlewood from the other & in between this quiet man from Meerut led the pack, where to stand, what to expect, which delivery to hold back. RCB won their first title in 18 years. Coincidence is a comfortable word for people who do not understand mentorship.
This season the mentor became executioner again. We know he is the leading wicket taker in IPL powerplay history, the swing merchant who makes the new ball talk. But now he completes the circle, owning all three acts of a T20 innings.
The knuckleball that stops in the pitch, the wide yorker that drags the hitter toward point, the in-swinger at 135 instead of 145.
Cricket chews up fast bowlers before 35. The back goes,knee goes, pace drops, world tells you to pack it in. Bhuvneshwar heard it all. He rewrote his menu, recalibrated his training & keep evolving.
At an age when most seamers are coaching or commentating, he is chasing the Purple Cap & proving that the body will listen if you learn its language. The gut feeling, quite literally, saved him.