With India gearing up to kick-start their home season against South Africa with a T20 series and ODI series, pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar feels the preparatory camp in Bengaluru has helped him get back into the game mode.
“It was a long break for the team. The preparations are different when you are coming after a layoff because it takes time to get back into the game mode. Everyone here is working on the specifics of their game and it is helping us a lot,” the medium pacer was quoted as saying by Bcci.tv.
Bhuvneshwar, who makes the new ball talk with his swing, said he was focusing on improving his bowling during the end overs in one-dayers. “Death bowling was an aspect I wasn’t very good at when I started playing international cricket. And I was very keen on getting better at succeeding with the old ball in limited-overs cricket. I always worked hard at it but as you play, you grow and learn about your own game. That’s when you figure out how you can develop certain aspects of your game in lesser time,” he added. Crediting IPL for helping him evolve as a good death bowler, Bhuvneshwar said: “n IPL as a specialist bowler, you have to bowl in the death overs; there is no way out. That experience helped me gradually improve as a death bowler.”
He said bowling in the IPL helped his confidence grow, which he felt during the ODI tour of Zimbabwe. “My confidence really got boosted when I bowled well in the death during the Zimbabwe series. I got that belief that I can do it at the international level as well. That will bode well for me and the team in the South Africa series,” he said.
