‘How are you feeling,’ Yash Dayal asks mom after win

Yash Dayal. Pic/AFP

Only a mother can feel the helplessness of her child and when Yash Dayal was on his haunches exactly 405 evenings back at the Motera, Radha Dayal had fallen ill watching his son pick up pieces of a fledgling career. It lay in tatters after longtime UP teammate Rinku Singh clobbered him for five successive sixes walking into collective consciousness of a nation.

It could have well been an end of the road for Dayal but those who pay little heed to the ruthlessly fickle social media stood by their man and he delivered.

He was earlier handed a BCCI pacer's contract and the manner in which he defended 17 runs against two of IPL's greatest finishers Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja, life's cycle was complete. "God's plan baby" Rinku wrote on his Instagram and who better to aptly sum it up.

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But after that eventful 20th over, the first thing that Dayal did was to check on his mother Radha. "Kaisa feel kar rahi ho? [how are you feeling?]," were Yash's first words to his mother on a video call, whose joy knew no bounds as celebrations continued in the Dayal family.

A beaming father Chandrapal, said the son told his mom that he was confident of stopping the legendary MSD on his tracks. "I was confident of pulling it off after the first-ball six and was calm and composed, Yash said about the last over," Chandrapal said.