Former New Zealand pacer and ex-Mumbai Indians (MI) bowling coach Shane Bond mentioned that one other injury on the same spot the place Indian tempo spearhead Jasprit Bumrah had his surgical procedure could be a career-ender and added that in future, he wouldn’t prefer to see him play greater than two Test matches in one go, ESPNCricinfo reported.
Bumrah has been nursing a decrease again injury, which dominated him out of India’s well-known run to Champions Trophy victory on Sunday.
He has not performed any aggressive cricket since then and in addition missed India’s victorious ICC Champions Trophy marketing campaign. Bumrah is finishing his rehab on the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru, and there’s no readability over his availability for Mumbai Indians (MI) throughout the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) ranging from March 22.
Bumrah has not suffered a again injury for the primary time, as he had surgical procedure for it in March 2023. Bond, who labored with MI in the previous as a bowling coach and is at the moment Rajasthan Royals’ bowling coach, mentioned that Bumrah’s workload wants cautious administration to keep away from one other injury.
Bond can be notably recognized for having a back-injury-affected profession himself. He performed simply 120 matches and picked 259 scalps for Kiwis from 2001-10. Like Bumrah, he had his first again surgical procedure at 29. Despite his persistent accidents, Bond performed until the age of 34, first retiring from Tests, then from all codecs inside lower than six months.
Speaking to ESPNCricinfo about Bumrah, he mentioned, “When he went off for scans, it was at Sydney, there was some messaging coming up around that he had sprains and stuff like that. I worried that it was not going to be a sprain; it might be a bony injury around that area [the back]. I thought he may struggle to make the Champions Trophy if it was.”
Bond highlighted that the hazard zone lies in the fast transition from T20 to Test cricket. The former pacer highlighted it as a problem as India prepares for the England tour of 5 Test matches, barely a month after the IPL ends on May 25.
“Look, I think Booms [Bumrah] will be fine, but it is just that [workload] management [matters],” Bond mentioned.”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.”
“Anywhere you transition from, particularly T20 to a Test match, it is challenging. If you are playing a one-day series, it is 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 is 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 are two days of travel, you might get one training [session], you are sort of bowling 20 overs maybe if you are lucky. That’s sort of half of a Test match load or even under half of, which then is a big jump, and you are not bowling back-to-back days. That is a big jump when you transition out of that,” he concluded his level.
“They may say, look, it is four Test matches in total. Or three. If we can get him through the English summer and he is fit, we can probably then go with some confidence that we can carry him across the rest of the formats. So that is 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 am not sure you can have surgery on that spot again,” he mentioned.
“He is too valuable for the next World Cup. So you would be looking at five Tests in England. I would not 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.”
With the Indian home season over, IPL is the one aggressive cricket Bumrah can play earlier than the England tour. Bond feels IPL is “maybe touch and go” for Bumrah and “there will be an element of risk depending on the intensity that he is bowling at by the time he gets back”.
Bond mentioned that it’s Bumrah’s accountability to work with the decision-makers in Indian cricket to plan a secure path that will assist him safe longevity. “So it is going to take some good management and just some open conversations with the player and say, look, we are doing this with your best interest in your career. Any player who has gone through that, and having myself [gone through it], you are desperate to play, but you also understand there are some risks at certain times and you have to make some compromises.”
Published – March 12, 2025 05:22 pm IST
