Suryakumar Yadav in uncertainty for Mumbai Indians' season opener

Suryakumar Yadav might not be fit in time for Mumbai Indians' IPL 2024 season opener against Gujarat Titans on March 24 as he continues his recovery from an ankle surgery he had earlier in the year. While Mumbai Indians lead trainer Imprint Boucher didn't give a conclusive wellness update, he didn't affirm that Suryakumar had been cleared to play by the BCCI's clinical staff by the same token. He will miss the two warm-up matches MI will play on Monday and Wednesday prior to venturing out to Ahmedabad. "Surya right now is on the direction of the Indian cricket crew also," Boucher said at the pre-season question and answer session in Mumbai on Monday. "Only sitting tight for reports on that. I could do without to obsessively hover over. We have an elite clinical group that is in charge of all of that. Indeed, the past, we have had a couple of wellness issues. We are continuously going to be in that kind of space of having wellness issues as different groups are too. "Each time I take a gander at my WhatsApp's there's reports of different groups likewise losing players. We trust our clinical group that they're doing the right things. See, on the off chance that we lose a couple according to wellness point of view, what will be will be. That is significant and we simply need to keep in good shape and sharp on substitutions." Suryakumar last played in December during the restricted overs leg of India's visit through South Africa. He got a lower leg injury while scoring 100 off 56 balls in the third T20I in Johannesburg and proceeded to have two medical procedures - one for his lower leg and one more for a games hernia. His recuperation managed him out of the T20I series against Afghanistan at home in January, India's last global task in the organization before the 2024 T20 World Cup in the USA and the West Indies beginning on June 1. Suryakumar was expecting to return in the DY Patil T20 Cup, a confidential yearly occasion in Mumbai, leading the pack up to the IPL however he is as of now at the Public Cricket Foundation in Bengaluru and is to get leeway from the BCCI clinical staff.