Bumrah leaves stadium midway in huge injury scare for India as he is taken to the hospital for scans on potential injury.
Bumrah leaves stadium after bowling only one over after lunch on the second day of the New Year’s Test in Sydney.
He was spotted exiting the dressing room with the team doctor and a security guard just after 2:00 PM local time, having taken off his Test whites.
Bumrah’s workload throughout this trip has raised concerns. In nine innings, he has bowled 152.1 overs and taken 32 wickets at a rate of 13.06. On a tour of Australia, he broke the record held by Bishan Bedi for the most wickets taken by an Indian bowler and was moving up the all-time list.
Three of the final five overs of the morning session had been spent off the pitch by Bumrah. After lunch, he returned to the pitch to bowl for India for the final two overs. His first ball was successful in beating Alex Carey’s bat. However, his speed was only in the early 120s to early 130s (kph). After bowling that over, Bumrah departed the pitch right away. It wasn’t until footage of him driving away from the SCG appeared on the broadcast that he was spotted.
Rohit Sharma had consequently expressed concern about overbowling him at the conclusion of the Melbourne Test, where he bowled 52 overs, his highest total in a Test match.
Since Rohit chose to step down from the final Test match due to his poor form, Bumrah took over as the team’s captain. India does not have a designated vice-captain. During the mid-session of the second day, it seemed as if Virat Kohli had assumed leadership of the squad. For India to keep the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, they must win the Sydney Test.
“If somebody is in such a great form. You want to try and maximise that form how much ever you can,” Rohit had said. “And that is what we’ve been trying to do with Bumrah.
“But there comes a time where you need to step back a little bit and give him that little bit of extra breather as well. So, we’ve been very careful.
“I’ve been very careful. I talk to him about how he feels and stuff like that. So, yeah. Those things should be managed carefully. And I’m trying to do that on the field.”