Mayank Yadav in action© BCCI
Talented fast bowlers are often told to trade their pace for more variety, but Mayank Yadav was given some golden advice from the very beginning by his illustrious senior Ishant Sharma of Delhi: never compromise on speed to acquire other skills. Having already bowled the fastest performance of this IPL season (156.7 kmph) against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), India’s latest pace sensation during his chat with ‘Jio Cinema’ spoke about the tips he got from Ishant, a veteran of more than 100 Tests and another senior pacer Navdeep Saini.
“All the bowlers I spoke to in Delhi, Ishant bhai and Saini bhai, they all told me that even if I wanted to try something new, I had to play around my speed.
“If I want to add a new skill, it should be around my speed and I don’t need to add any skills that can compromise my speed,” Mayank said. While the focus is on taking as many wickets as possible in a winning match. Because the intention to generate pace with every delivery is always in the back of his mind.
“My focus is not so much on pace as on taking wickets and contributing to the team by taking wickets. However, it is always in the back of my mind that when I bowl deliveries, I have to put pace behind it.
“After a match I always ask people what the fastest speed was, but during the match I am only focused on my bowling.” Yadav has received a lot of praise for his performances so far, the latest of which was a 3/14 performance against RCB last night.
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