Nehra appeals

A great IPL season has finally earned Ashish Nehra a much deserved return to India colors for the upcoming West Indies ODI tour. Ashish has been in hibernation from international cricket for quite sometime after struggling from chronic injuries to his ankles and back for the last 4 years. Now in an interview to Cricinfo Ashish sounds confident and seems to be aware now(about time!) that playing with small niggles can be extremely harmful for a fast bowler. While it remains to be seen how much confidence MSD has in Nehra the poor performance of Ishant Sharma in recent times might well create an opening in the West Indies. Nehra should also be aware that the role of the third pacer ( Ishant & Zaheer are automatic picks) in test matches is still up for contention too. When he burst onto the international scene in 2000-01 Ashish Nehra was the most impressive young fast bowling hope for India. Now almost a decade later Ashish will hopefully try to fulfil at least some of that initial promise by continuing with the same determination he has shown in reviving his stop-start career after a gap of 4 long years. As he said in the interview it has been injuries rather than form/performance that has been the bane of his career. Now with an improved mindset towards fitness Nehra might well script a truly remarkable resurgance…