New Delhi, May 15: Indian pacer Ashish Nehra today rejected suggestions that fatigue due to IPL was responsible for the team’s humiliating early exit from the Twenty20 World Cup, saying that the league has helped him resurrect his international career.
“IPL has done good for me because that’s how I made my international comeback last year. Even this year … I think if you perform well then nobody criticises IPL. We didn’t do well in last year’s T20 World Cup and that’s why people criticise IPL,” Nehra told reporters.
The injury-prone Nehra was helped back from wilderness by a strong showing in the IPL.
But the league and the after-match parties that were introduced this year came in for some criticism from Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who felt the parties, at least, affected the players’ fitness.
Meanwhile, Nehra also ridiculed criticism of the Indian players’ fitness level.
–PTI