Speed thrills and excites new pace sensation Mayank Yadav

Speed thrills and excites Indias latest fastbowling sensation Mayank Yadav a passion cultivated since childhood where the sleek lines of jet planes aweinspiring force of rockets and the raw power of superbikes captured his imaginationThe 21yearolds 150kmph thunderbolts amazed one and all during his side Lucknow Super Giants 21run win over Punjab Kings in their IPL 2024 encounter on SaturdayMayank 327 stole the limelight with his searing pace In the 12th over of Punjabs innings he bowled the seasons fastest ball at 1558 kmphHis extra pace rattled Jonny Bairstow Prabhsimran Singh and Jitesh Sharma and led to PBKS downfall He consistently clocked 150kmph and above on the speedometer during his fourover spell to be adjudged the player of the matchEven in normal life apart from cricket I love things which have speed with them Whether it is a rocket aeroplane or superbike speed excites me In my childhood I liked jet planes and would get inspiration from them said Mayank at the postmatch press conferenceI have never bowled 156kmph before this I clicked 155kmph during Mushtaq Ali but this is my fastest ball added the pacer from Punjabi Bagh in New DelhiMayank had played just two List A games before he was picked by LSG ahead of IPL 2022 He did not play a single match in the first season and was ruled out of the next season with a torn hamstringAfter he recovered from the injury he played for North Zone in the 50over Deodhar Trophy where he knocked out Rahul Tripathis middle stump with a ripperInjuries are part of fast bowlers life they are your friends I had twothree major injuries in the past one or one and a half years Those were my setbacks Last season also I missed playing in IPL because of injury I had side strain injury with rib fracture and that happened after Vizay Hazare My effort is to give more attention to recovery and to myself in training and physicallyAlso ReadHow Mayank Yadav turned story of the night in Lucknows first IPL 2024 winIts natural that Mayank would get inspiration from a speed merchant South African great Dale SteynI look up to only one fast bowler and that is Dale Steyn He is my idol and I idolise him a lotTalking about his IPL 2024 game plan he said JL head coach Justin Langer or even Morne Morkel bowling coach did not say anything particular on what I need to work on They know that along with pace my hard length ball is good They just told me to keep the plan simple use pace and bowl hard length balls as many as possible as well those which can be finished on stumpsHe said he did not feel any pressure or nervousness during his debut matchA lot of excitement was there in my debut For the last two years I have been visualising just one thing that that is when I make my debut what will I feel when I bowl my first ball Everybody said there would be some pressure or nervousness but I did not feel it at all When my captain told me to bowl the first over I felt inside me that I belonged to this place and there was a lot of confidenceWith agency inputs