IPL 2025 – Shane Bond advises cautious approach to Jasprit Bumrah’s return from back injury

This is the first time that Bumrah has undergone a back injury since he underwent surgery in March 2023. Bond, who worked with Bumrah in the past – he was Bowling coach with MI for several years – and is currently in India as a bowling coach at Rajasthan Royals, said that Bumrah’s workloads should be managed to avoid RELAUNCH.

The “danger” zone where rapid quasses are injured, according to Bond, when they quickly pass from T20 to test the cricket. And that, said Bond, would also be his main concern for Bumrah, since India will go to England to play series of five tests in June barely a month after the end of the IPL on May 25.

“Listen, I think the booms will go well, but that’s right [workload] management [matters]”Said Bond. And often is that the [transition from] IPL in the test championship will be a risk.

“Wherever you go from particularly T20 to a test match, it’s difficult. If you are playing a series of a day, it is generally not too bad. [range]It’s quite close to a week of testing match anyway. But in T20, especially in IPL, while you play three games in a week, two days ago, you could get training [session]You are some sort of bowling 20 letters perhaps if you are lucky. It is in a way half of a test charge or even in less than half of, which is then a big jump and you are not consecutive days. It’s a big leap when you go from it. “”

In the future, said Bond, he would not want Bumrah to play more of two consecutive tests in one time.

“It is too precious for the next World Cup and everything.

“Looking at five tests in England, I wouldn’t want to play it in more than two in a row. Getting out from the back of the IPL in a test match will be a huge risk.”

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“They can say, look, these are four test games in total. Or three. If we can get it in the English summer and it is in good shape, we can probably go with a certain confidence that we can make it cross the rest of the formats. It is therefore difficult because it is your best bowler, but if it cannot have another injury in the same place, it could be a little career.”

With the Indian national season completed, the IPL is the only competitive series that Bumrah can appear before the tour in England. While Bond felt the IPL “maybe touch and go” for Bumrah, he said “there will be a risk element depending on the intensity in which he bowls when he returns”.

Bond said it was also the responsibility of Bumrah to work in tandem with Indian cricket decision -makers to trace a safe path that would help him extend his career. “So, it will take good management and just a few open conversations with the player and say, look, we do this with your best interest in your career. Any player who went through that and that I did myself [gone through it]You are desperate to play, but you also understand that there are risks at certain times and you should make compromises. “”

* The full interview will be published on Espncricinfo later this month.