The 30-year-old Jasprit Bumrah bowled over 150 overs in the India vs Australia series. Jasprit Bumrah was India’s stand-out player with 32 wickets in their 1-3 thrashing at the hands of Australia in the just-concluded Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
He featured either with the bat or with the ball on all days of the series except one. He was out of bowling during the final overs of the series in Sydney, which he went through due to back spasms. The 30-year-old Bumrah had bowled over 150 overs during the series. According to a news agency PTI report, the injury is directly linked to his excessive workload in the series. He was used like you squeeze juice from sugarcane.
It was like ‘Travis Head has come, give the ball to Bumrah, Marnus has come, give the ball to Bumrah, Steve Smith has come, give the ball to Bumrah’. How many overs will Bumrah bowl? He has been reduced to such a condition that he was unavailable.
If he had been there, Australia might have won the fifth test, but they would have lost eight wickets, which would have been tough for them,” Harbhajan Singh said on his YouTube channel. “You broke his back, and the management should have decided how many overs he should be given.”
The great spinner was unforgiving in his analysis of India’s team selection for the fifth Test in Sydney. The selection of the team was not correct. Two spinners were played on a spicy pitch; you saw green patches. It is beyond my understanding that despite playing and watching so much cricket, you do not understand such a small thing. What to do on such a pitch. The gentleman who has gone there and sitting together, if he cannot understand this thing, then I don’t know what he is doing,” he said.
“What is the point of having two spinners on this pitch? Your spinners did bowl very little; you are just making the batting line-up longer. It is not right; they are just stuck in their stubbornness. This is not a T20 format, this is Test cricket.”.
