Former New Zealand pacer Shane Bond has issued a massive warning to the Mumbai Indians as well as the Indian cricket team, saying that while Jasprit Bumrah was at the top of his game in the five-Test series in Australia, India cannot put him through the same gruel in England, as he is on the borderline of a fracture.
Bumrah, who last bowled in a competitive game two months back, continues to be on the road to recovery, and while he is expected to make a comeback in the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League for Mumbai, there is no fixed return date.
Two years back, a similar lower back injury took almost a year out of Bumrah’s career. It is a whole different discussion that he returned more menacing and threatening than before, but he remains susceptible to injuries.
“I don’t think so. He had the [2023] surgery, but he played all that [Australia] Test series, performed unbelievably. At the end of the day, he just bowled too much over one month,” Bond said while speaking on ESPNCricinfo.
“And it hasn’t cracked, he hasn’t got a fracture, he is on the borderline of a fracture. But what India would have learned is, if you then look at a five-Test series in England and they do the same thing, they are probably going to get the same result,” Bond added.
