Riding on Varun Chakaravarthy’s four-for and Jasprit Bumrah’s match-winning spell, India sealed the five-match T20I series 3-1 with a 30-run win over South Africa at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Friday.
The selection committee, chaired by former India pacer Ajit Agarkar, finalised the squads on Saturday in Ahmedabad, where India had earlier sealed a dominant innings-and-140-run victory over West Indies in the first Test.
India will be going into the must-win fifth and final Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy against England at The Oval in London without pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah, who has been asked by the Indian cricket board's medical team not to play, keeping his workload in mind.
The loss in the series opener against England in Headingley will have no impact on the workload management of premier fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah, confirmed head coach Gautam Gambhir, while defending his bowling unit after England rode a superb century from opener Ben Duckett to chase down a daunting 371 on the final day and take a 1-0 lead in the rubber.
As India get ready for a tough tour of England in which they will play five Test matches without many senior players, the skipper Shubman Gill and head coach Gautam Gambhir will have to make some very tough calls on the batting and bowling front.
Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, Jayawardene said that Bumrah "is in good spirits" as he recovers at the BCCI's Centre of Excellence (formerly the National Cricket Academy) in Bengaluru.
Jasprit Bumrah and Kuldeep Yadav have been included in India’s provisional 15-man squad for the ICC Champions Trophy, starting February 19 in Pakistan and the UAE.
India’s star pacer Jasprit Bumrah was on Tuesday named ICC Men’s Player of the Month for December 2024 after his sensational performance during the recent tour of Australia for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Jasprit Bumrah’s heroics in the recently-concluded Border-Gavaskar series, where he ended up with a whopping 32 wickets, took his overall tally to 64 thus breaking the record of legendary Kapil Dev (51 wickets) to register the most Test wickets by an Indian bowler in Australia, consolidated his spot at the top of the ICC Test bowlers’ rankings, maintaining his career-best rating of 908.
Despite India ending up losing the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 1-3, ICC Hall of Famer Ricky Ponting believes that pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah’s exploits are not only the best he’s seen of a visiting bowler in Australia but probably also the best fast-bowling display of all time.
