 "Pace legend warns Jasprit Bumrah against playing more than two Test in row in England: 'Could be a career-ender'")
Former New Zealand pacer Shane Bond has advised Jasprit Bumrah to not play more than two Tests in a row in the tour of England later this year, keeping his fitness and workload in mind. Pace spearhead Bumrah, who is widely expected to succeed Rohit as Test skipper, had suffered a back spasm during the recent Test series in Australia which turned into an injury that forced him to miss the limited-overs series against England as well as the ICC Champions Trophy.
Bumrah’s ’too valuable for the next World Cup’: Bond
Bond, who had worked closely with Bumrah during his time as bowling coach of the Mumbai Indians, added that another injury caused due to excessive workload could be career-ending for Bumrah.
“He’s too valuable for the next World Cup and stuff. So you’d be looking at five Tests in England, I wouldn’t want to be playing him in any more than two in a row. Coming out of the back end of the IPL into a Test match is going to be a huge risk. And so how do they manage that is going to be key,” whose own career was cut short due to injuries, told ESPNCricinfo.
“They may say, look, it’s four Test matches in total. Or three. If we can get him through the English summer and he’s fit, we can probably then go with some confidence that we can carry him across the rest of the formats.
“So that’s hard because he is your best bowler, but if he has another injury in the same spot, that could be a career-ender, potentially, because I’m not sure you can have surgery on that spot again,” added Bond, who collected 259 wickets for the Black Caps in an international career spanning nine years.
Bumrah had finished as the leading wicket-taker in the five-Test series in Australia for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, collecting 32 wickets at an average of 13.06.
The 31-year-old had initially been included in India’s provisional squad for the ICC Champions Trophy, but was later ruled out and replaced by Harshit Rana after failing to recover from the back injury.
Impact Shorts
More ShortsSenior pacer Mohammed Shami led India’s attack in his absence in the ninth edition of the ‘Mini World Cup’, finishing as the third-highest wicket-taker with nine wickets at an average of 25.88. India would go on to win the tournament for a third time , winning all five matches that they played including the final against New Zealand in Dubai by four wickets.
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