Mahmood's tears, fears and journey through the gearspublished at 09:59 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2023
Matthew Henry
BBC Sport
Five months after suffering a stress fracture of the back, Saqib Mahmood finally has a cricket ball in his hand.
It is the last week of September 2022 and Mahmood can bowl again for the first time, albeit without a run-up and with just a bowling coach for company.
"As soon as I got to the middle I was so overwhelmed," he told BBC Sport afterwards. "It looked so far away.
"It was like I had completely forgotten how to bowl."
Another five, often painstaking, months later and now the 26-year-old is making his long-awaited England return in a one-day international in Bangladesh.
Read more of his journey right here.