Ashish Nehra story: Unbreakable spirit inside a battered body | Ipl News
Ashish Nehra’s injury-prone legs would often get pulled when he was part of the Indian dressing room. That banter didn’t escape the attention of the then coach John Wright. In his book Indian Summers, Wright wrote: “Nehra and the team physiotherapist Andrew Leipus spent so much time in each other’s company that players would ask them, ‘So, when are you two tying the knot’? Leipus has a hearty laugh when reminded of the inside joke from Indian cricket’s heady days of change when the template of a new fitness regime was getting shaped. “He is partly the reason my thumbs are worn out,” he says, jokingly. “Even when I left the Indian team, he followed me to Adelaide when he got injured”. The tone of his voice exudes the warmth he shares with the former pace bowler. Among other things, the IPL lends itself to the many reunions on the sidelines of games. Leipus, these days, is with the Punjab Kings. That’s how he ended up bumping into his pet patient from years back—the much-visible …
