India’s Jasprit Bumrah set to play three Tests against England, says longest format remains ‘pinnacle’ of cricket | Cricket News

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The recent test pensions by Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have left India without two legends of the game – or OGS as Jasprit Bumrah called them – for the series in England, but tourists will be able to call on the best all -format bowler in the world.

Little, if necessary, would suggest that Bumrah is not only with its jerky climb, its particular angles, its swing, its control and its range of slower balls and Yorkers helping it to raise 205 counters in 45 tests on average less than 20 and sit at the top of the Bowling ICC classification in the longest form.

Add more than 500 counters to white ball games in national and international cricket and the 31-year-old has become a legend, or OG, himself. And the bad news for the “bazballers” of England is that he feels in good shape before the competition of five tests which begins on Friday.

Bumrah suffered a back injury in the last 3-1 defeat of India in Australia during the winter and spent three months on the sidelines, missing the campaign of the Victorious Champions Trophy in the process, before returning to the action in IPL this spring.

He will now reintegrate red ball cricket in England, with the plan to appear in three of the tests, starting with the opener in Headingley from Friday, live Sky Sports (11h first ball).

Bumrah said Sky Sports Commentator and former teammate of India, Dinesh Karthik: “The body feels good, no problems, no complaints. I always try to take care of my body and do everything in my power. Arriving in this series, I prepared very well.

“I have to be smart and I don’t become younger day by day. I have to take care of my body because I would like to play longer and contribute in the three formats.

“I plan to travel, but three test games are what I watch, what I can manage at the moment.

“The first will certainly happen, the rest we see how things are, what is the workload, what are the scenarios. I hope that in the games I play, I give my best.”

Bumrah by rejecting the captain: I wanted to put the team first

Bumrah – which took 60 counters at an average of 22.16 in 14 games against England, of which 37 far from home – says that he will not participate in each test this time was the key to his decision not to be the successor of Rohit as captain.

The Quick led India in the first test in Australia at the end of last year – a match that his team won by 295 points in Perth – then for the final in Sydney, but the team will now be directed on a permanent basis by the shubman Gill striker.

“There are no fancy stories, no controversy, no big titles that I was dismissed,” added Bumrah, who underwent surgery in 2023.

“I discussed my workloads in the future, I spoke to the people who succeeded my back, spoke to the surgeon.

“I came to the conclusion that I must be a little smarter, so I called the BCCI and I said that I did not want to be examined in a leadership role.

“They were looking at me for the leadership, but I had to say no because it is not fair for the team if in a series of five tests, three games that someone else runs and two games that someone else runs.

“I always wanted to put the team first. The captain wanted a lot, I worked very hard for that, but unfortunately, sometimes you have to look at the situation as a whole. I love cricket more than the captain.

“I’m here for [Gill] any title. If I see something, I can give a silent word but I want it to be free to make it work as it wants. “”

“ Young India Squad is intrepid and has no luggage ”

The outings of Kohli, Rohit and Ravichandran Ashwin, derogate – this last time of appeal on his international career during the Australia – Mean India series has a largely inexperienced tour and Bumrah is now as one of the senior figures.

But there is no shortage of India is the talent, with the first-rate striker Yashasvi Jaiswal, who marked two hundreds of hundreds against England in the home series at the beginning of 2024 in a 4-1 triumph, one of the many players who could prosper this summer.

Bumrah added: “It is a different phase, it has a different atmosphere – a pleasant and calm energy and it is very young. I was the young and suddenly I became the older person!

“No one has luggage because many of them come for their first tour. It could be an advantage that they are intrepid and that go with an attacker approach.”

Bumrah’s desire to be a fully format star can make him one of the last of a dying race with many players, now prioritizing the arena of the white ball – and the lucrative finances that accompany him – in the middle of a crowded cricket calendar.

It includes the appeal of shorter formats but insists that the tests remain the place where your inheritance is really built.

“Everyone is different but I come from a time when test cricket was the ultimate. This is the format I grew up looking at and I always judge myself in this format,” he said.

“You cannot judge a quick launcher because everyone’s state of mind is different. It is difficult to have this same disc and continue [with so many games]. He mentally exhaust so that young people can have to choose.

“But I think [Test cricket] is the best and I encourage people to play this format if you want respect.

“If it’s your motivation, it’s the format.”

Watch India face England in the five live game series Sky Sports Cricket or broadcast with now. The first test at Headingley begins on Friday with an accumulation from 10 a.m. and the first ball at 11 a.m.