India vs England: Jasprit Bumrah in Race Against Time to be Fit For Second Test Against England

[saik]

Already ruled out of the ODI series in England with a thumb injury, Jasprit Bumrah is in a fight against time to be fit for the second Test against England starting on August 9 at Lord’s. CricketNext has reliably learnt from those in the know that rehabilitation in case of such a surgery takes from five to six weeks and if the bowler reacts well and makes swift progress, he could well be back on the flight to England just in time for the second Test. 
 

 

 

While Deepak Chahar was picked as Bumrah’s replacement for the ongoing T20I series, Shardul Thakur will replace him for the ODI series that follows the shortest format. The Test series starts on August 1 at Edgbaston.

 

 

Starting off as a pure white-ball specialist, his control with the Kookaburra ball led to pundits and former cricketers calling for his inclusion in the Test side. The call-up came for the tour of South Africa on the back of 103 wickets from 29 first-class games. And the fast bowler didn’t disappoint as he was the wrecker-in-chief as India beat hosts South Africa by 63 runs in the third Test at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg.

Bumrah picked 7 wickets in the game with figures of 5/54 in the first essay and 2/57 including the all-important wicket of AB de Villiers for 6 in the second innings. He finished the series with 14 wickets from the 3 games at a strike-rate of 48.0. 

Bumrah suffered the finger injury against Ireland in the first T20 international in Dublin while attempting to take a catch in the 20th over of the Ireland innings off his own bowling. The Indian Test squad is expected to be named during the ODI series later this month and captain Virat Kohli will be hoping the world’s top ranked ODI bowler can play a part in his team’s quest to come back with the series trophy.

 

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[Mosher]

Big blow. I thought he would be fit in time for the 1st test

[Suhaan]

Kohli should curse himself,he was the one who played him against mighty Ireland,the Yesman as usual would have ,with his wagging tail obliged with  Yes to his silly decision

[saik]

Both Bumrah and Bhuvi Should have been rested for the limited overs series considering we have to play 5 tests.

Edited July 7, 2018 by saik

[LordPrabhzy]

I knew this was going to happen after the SA tour Bumrah had... they realised they could get more formats out of him so they squeezed out of him as much as possible.. not even had the foresight to reduce his IPL matches to keep him fresh for the England tour. and why oh why did he play against Ireland?? even Vinay Koomar would have been sufficient for that line up.

 

So much for BCCIs 'plan' to watch people's workloads. Kiss my hairy butt MSK Prasad

[Lannister]

With all the money they have got, the morons can't even come up with a decent system to manage the players' workload. This is what happens when you rely on players for making decisions and your management is filled with inept staff. 

[Suhaan]

1 hour ago, Lannister said:

With all the money they have got, the morons can't even come up with a decent system to manage the players' workload. This is what happens when you rely on players for making decisions and your management is filled with inept staff. 

Aussies have been doing this(workload management) for ages now..they say they are best,have been best,but never did they emulate their work ethics

[Khota]

BCCI is stuck in an era that reminds me stone age. They never give two consecutive games to a pitcher is baseball. Relieve pitcher only gets finite pitches. They understand if these players get hurt there is no coming back sometime. Least they can do now is to let him heal completely without rushing him.

Edited July 7, 2018 by Khota

[Clarke]

Race 4 starting Jazzy Bumrah ?

[GolGappe]

Given the hot and dry English summer, India will most likely go with Umesh, Shami, Ishant, Hardik, and Ashwin in first test match.

 

Bhuvi adds bit of spunk to the tail but hopefully Saha won't be a complete turd as a batsman and can be relied upon to give us 20-25 runs at number 7.