In a major blow to the Indian national cricket team, superstar pacer Jasprit Bumrah suffered a major injury ahead of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25.
Jasprit Bumrah’s injury scare comes as a big blow because he is the stand-in captain of the Indian National Cricket Team for the first match of the Test series, which begins on November 22 in Perth.
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Jasprit Bumrah hit his shoulder
Bumrah is the designated vice-captain of the Indian team and after Rohit Sharma took the decision to skip the first Test, the leadership responsibility fell on the pacer.
Notably, Rohit Sharma did not travel with India to Australia for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy because he and his wife were expecting their second child.
Rohit and Ritika Sajdeh were blessed with a baby boy on November 15 and the Indian captain decided to stay with his family for some time. He is expected to join the team before the second Test in Adelaide.
Coming back to Jasprit Bumrah, CODE Cricket journalists Ben Horne and Dan Cherny, who were present at the Perth stadium during India and Australia’s practice sessions, revealed that Bumrah was hit on the shoulder by a net bowler while performing batting practice. and fell in agony.
However, they further said that India’s leading pacer seemed fine after suffering the knock and was seen clicking pictures with the net bowlers.
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He is your X factor – Travis Head
Bumrah has played just 40 Test matches for the Indian national cricket team, but he is undoubtedly the most important player in the team at the moment.
His presence strikes fear into the opposition and his record against the Australians is also very good. In 7 Tests, he took 32 wickets against Australia at an average of 21.25, an economy of 2.47 and a strike rate of 51.5.
Recently, during an interaction on Fox Cricket, Travis Head tagged Bumrah as the X factor of the Indian team. He said:
“Impossible (to confront). You try to feel like you’re one step ahead, but you always feel like he’s the next step. Any format of the game, he’s unbelievable. He’s their X factor, he’s their go-to guy.” Always, and most of the time, he is able to produce for them. “In big moments you want great players, and I think he is the greatest.”
Like Mitchell Johnson, he also had a strange action – Usman Khawaja
Meanwhile, Australian opener Usman Khawaja compared Jasprit Bumrah to Mitchell Johnson and said that the Indian superstar also has a strange action that makes it difficult for batsmen to tackle him. He said:
“When I first faced Bumrah, I thought, ‘Oh, where did that come from?’ It comes to you a little quicker than you expect because of the clumsiness of his action and the way he throws the ball.”
“Like Mitchell Johnson, he also had a strange action. The ball used to come out and you felt like it was coming at you faster because you couldn’t look at it in its entirety. Jasprit is a bit the same, with arms going everywhere.”