Jasprit Bumrah suffered a back injury in the same area where he underwent a surgery before following which Shane Bond has give stark warning about his fitness. Bumrah was sidelined from competitive cricket after he suffered the injury in Sydney Test of Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25.
Jasprit Bumrah’s Return In IPL Still Not Confirmed
Currently India’s star pacer is undergoing rehabilitation at the BCCI’s centre of excellence in Bengaluru. However, there is no confirmed date for his return, and uncertainty looms over his participation in IPL 2025 with Mumbai Indians.
Shane Bond Warns About Transition Phase
The former New Zealand cricketer Shane Bond highlighted a critical concern for Bumrah and that is the transition from T20 cricket to Tests. According to Bond, this phase is the “Danger Zone” for fast bowlers as the workload shift can put immense strain on the body.
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IPL To Test Championship
“Look, I think Booms will be fine, but it’s just that [workload] management [matters],” Bond said. “Looking at the tours and the schedule going forward, where are the opportunities to give him a break, but really where are the danger periods? And often it is that the [transition from] IPL to the Test championship will be a risk.
After IPL concludes India will be going for England Tour where five Tests will be played from June 28 to August 3.
T20 Cricket To Tests: Big Risk Involved For Fast Bowlers
“Anywhere you transition from particularly T20 to a Test match, it’s challenging. If you are playing a one-day series, it’s generally not too bad. You will play three games a week, you will have a practice, you are sort of in around that 40 overs [range], that’s pretty close to a Test match week anyway. But in T20, particularly in the IPL, when you might be playing three games in a week, there’s two days of travel, you might get one training [session], you are sort of bowling 20 overs maybe if you’re lucky. That’s sort of half of a Test match load or even under a half of, which then is a big jump and you are not bowling back-to-back days. That’s a big jump when you transition out of that.”
Bumrah Too Valuable For Next World Cup
“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.
Risk Involved For Jasprit Bumrah Even In IPL
While Bond highlighted that the IPL “maybe touch and go” for Bumrah, he said “there will be an element of risk depending on the intensity that he’s bowling at by the time he gets back”.
“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.”
