Passion, enthusiasm and passion! First out of the team, then lost the central contract; How did Ishan Kishan make a tremendous comeback?

T20 World Cup 2026, Ishan Kishan: Team India’s wicketkeeper batsman Ishaan Kishan Made an important contribution to the victory of Team India by playing a brilliant inning of 77 runs against Pakistan at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on 15 February. After his brilliant innings, Ishan Kishan’s name is now on everyone’s lips. This is the same Ishan Kishan who had asked for a break from the team management in the year 2023 due to mental pressure, but due to this break, Ishan had to stay out of Team India for almost 2 years.

The selectors ignored him for 2 years. Not only this, after being out of the team, Ishaan was also dropped from the central contract. Now fans are looking very happy with Ishaan’s tremendous comeback. While being away from Team India, Ishaan has worked hard for 2 years, as a result of which Ishaan has now emerged as an important part of T20 Team India and a man-winning player.

How did Ishaan make a tremendous comeback?

Despite being out of Team India, Ishan Kishan continued to perform brilliantly in domestic cricket. From Ranji Trophy to Vijay Hazare, Ishaan scored a lot of runs. However, the way Ishaan won the trophy for Jharkhand in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy by his amazing captaincy along with batting, it proved to be a big turning point for his return to Team India. While batting in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025, Ishaan scored the highest score of 517 runs.

During this period, two brilliant centuries were also scored with his bat. After his brilliant performance in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025, Ishan Kishan was included in the Indian team for the 5-match T20 series played with New Zealand. In this series, Kishan batted brilliantly and also scored 1 century and 1 half-century.

Hardik Pandya’s hand in comeback?

Hardik Pandya is considered very close to Ishan Kishan. Both of them have played cricket together for Mumbai Indians in IPL for a long time. Apart from this, Ishaan has learned a lot from Hardik even during practice. Ishaan also considers Hardik as his mentor. After the match played with Namibia in the T20 World Cup 2026, Ishaan had said that when he was out of the team and had also lost his central contract, Hardik strengthened him a lot and supported him.

When were you dropped from the team?

In the year 2023, when Team India was on the tour of South Africa, Ishan Kishan was also a part of Team India, but in the middle of the tour, Ishan asked for a break due to mental stress. At that time even Ishan Kishan had not thought that this break would prove to be so long. After this he had to remain out of the team continuously. Ishaan continued playing in IPL and domestic cricket. But the selectors still ignored him.