Suyash Sharma doesn’t say a lot. He never has. You have to hunt for words from him every time he is handed the mic. It’s not that he doesn’t want to talk. He just doesn’t know how.
He also didn’t know what was affecting him all these years. He played with pain for two full seasons, not understanding what his body was trying to tell him. Took injections before matches, dealt with discomfort every day, and still bowled like it was nothing. It wasn’t dramatic. But it was real. And it was hard.
The scans didn’t show much. The symptoms didn’t make sense. So he did what young cricketers often do: kept quiet and stuck to the routine.
The pain became new normal that he forgot what pain-free felt like. You wouldn’t have known that he was bowling with a body that kept whispering “stop” every time he bent down to tie his shoelaces.
RCB stepped in when it mattered. They didn’t just log it as another injury update. They sent him to London, got him surgery, and more than that, they gave him a home. Literally. He stayed with team physio James Pipe. A 22-year-old, in a new country, trying to get his body back, and he wasn’t alone.
He came back slowly. Started bowling to the RCB women’s team in Lucknow. Far from the spotlight. Just getting his rhythm back.
And today, once again, he showed us what he can do and why RCB backed him in the first place.
Suyash isn’t the kind of spinner who will turn the ball miles. But he has got this arm speed. A unique action. That googly.
That googly has a mind of its own. It comes in like it’s begging to be hit, floats just enough, then dips away at the last second. Batters swing at a dream and walk back staring at the stumps. They keep falling for it. And Suyash just walks back like it’s another Thursday.
The plan has always been simple: target the stumps, don’t give the batter room to breathe. And he’s been doing that. Over after over. Game after game.
But for Suyash, it is never just been about the plan. It’s about being here at all.
He is been through a lot, but he never made it a thing. Just kept doing the work. And now, he is giving back. To the franchise that backed him. To the game that never let him go. With spells like these, may be more.
He is not going to make headlines every game. But some stories don’t need numbers. They just need space. Space for a young spinner who didn’t give up when his body tried to.
And maybe, just maybe, Suyash has one more such spell left. Not only for the Cup. But for everything that brought him here.
