Bond warns Bumrah of “career-ender harm”, desires him to not play “greater than two Checks in a row”
Bumrah has been nursing a lower back injurywhich dominated him out of India’s well-known run to Champions Trophy victory on Sunday. The bowler who has been branded as a “nationwide treasure” by star batter Virat Kohlifought a lone battle for India throughout the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25, taking 32 wickets in 5 matches, earlier than breaking down within the remaining Take a look at match at Sydney earlier this 12 months in January, struggling what turned out to be a stress-related injury. He has not performed any aggressive cricket since then and likewise missed India’s victorious ICC Champions Trophy marketing campaign.
Bumrah is finishing his rehab at Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru and there’s no readability over his availability for Mumbai Indians (MI) throughout the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) ranging from March 22 onwards.
Bumrah has not suffered a again harm for the primary time, as he had surgical procedure for it in March 2023. Bond, who labored with MI previously as a bowling coach and is presently Rajasthan Royals’ bowling coach, mentioned that Bumrah’s workload wants cautious administration to keep away from one other harm.
Bond can also be notably recognized for having a back-injury-affected profession himself. He performed simply 120 matches and picked 259 scalps for Kiwis from 2001-10. Like Bumrah, he had his first again surgical procedure at 29. Regardless of his persistent accidents, Bond performed until the age of 34, first retiring from Checks, then from all codecs inside lower than six months.
Talking to ESPNCricinfo about Bumrah, he mentioned, “When he went off for scans, it was at Sydney, there was some messaging arising round that he had sprains and stuff like that. I nervous that it was not going to be a sprain, it could be a bony harm round that space (the again). I believed he could wrestle to make the Champions Trophy if it was.”Bond highlighted that the hazard zone lies within the the fast transition from T20 to Take a look at cricket. The previous pacer highlighted it as a problem as India prepares for the England tour of 5 Take a look at matches, barely a month after the IPL ends on Might 25. “Look, I believe Booms will probably be effective, however it’s simply that (workload) administration (issues),” Bond mentioned.
“Wanting on the excursions and the schedule going ahead, the place are the alternatives to offer him a break, however actually the place are the hazard intervals? And infrequently it’s that the (transition from) IPL to the Take a look at championship will probably be a threat.”
“Wherever you transition from, significantly T20 to a Take a look at match, it’s difficult. In case you are taking part in a one-day sequence, it’s usually not too dangerous. You’ll play three video games every week, you should have a follow, you might be kind of in round that 40 overs (vary), that’s fairly near a Take a look at match week anyway. However in T20, significantly within the IPL, whenever you could be taking part in three video games in every week, there’s two days of journey, you may get one coaching (session), you might be kind of bowling 20 overs possibly if you’re fortunate. That is kind of half of a Take a look at match load and even beneath a half of, which then is an enormous bounce and you aren’t bowling back-to-back days. That may be a huge bounce whenever you transition out of that,” he concluded his level.
India’s tour to England will probably be a decent one, with 5 Checks between June 28 to August 3. Bond mentioned that India mustn’t give Bumrah the workload he endured on the Australia tour, bowling a complete of 151.2 overs, together with 52 throughout the fourth Take a look at, a Boxing Day sport at Melbourne, his most in a Take a look at match.
“He’s too worthwhile for the subsequent World Cup and stuff. So you’ll be taking a look at 5 Checks in England, I might not wish to be taking part in him in any greater than two in a row. Popping out of the again finish of the IPL right into a Take a look at match goes to be an enormous threat. And so how do they handle that’s going to be key.”
“They could say, look, it’s 4 Take a look at matches in whole. Or three. If we will get him by way of the English summer time and he’s match, we will in all probability then go together with some confidence that we will carry him throughout the remainder of the codecs. So that’s exhausting as a result of he’s your finest bowler, but when he has one other harm in the identical spot, that might be a career-ender, probably, as a result of I’m not positive you may have surgical procedure on that spot once more.”
With Indian home season over, IPL is the one aggressive cricket Bumrah can play earlier than England tour. Bond feels IPL is “possibly contact and go” for Bumrah and “there will probably be a component of threat relying on the depth that he’s bowling at by the point he will get again”.
Bond mentioned that it’s Bumrah’s accountability to work with the decision-makers in Indian cricket to plan a protected path that will assist him safe longevity. “So it’ll take some good administration and just a few open conversations with the participant and say, look, we’re doing this along with your finest curiosity in your profession. Any participant who has gone by way of that, and having myself (gone by way of it), you might be determined to play, however you additionally perceive there are some dangers at sure occasions and you need to make some compromises.”
