{"id":12337,"date":"2025-07-02T06:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=12337"},"modified":"2025-07-02T06:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:04:11","slug":"india-face-last-minute-bumrah-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=12337","title":{"rendered":"India face \u2018last-minute\u2019 Bumrah call"},"content":{"rendered":"
India will make a \u201clast-minute\u201d decision on whether to risk the outstanding Jasprit Bumrah in successive Tests as they look to level their five-match series with England this week.<\/p>\n

Bumrah is the world\u2019s top-ranked Test bowler and, ordinarily, his selection for a match starting at Birmingham\u2019s Edgbaston ground on Wednesday, would be an obvious move following India\u2019s five-wicket loss in the series opener at Headingley.<\/p>\n

Bumrah, however, is returning from a back injury, with the fast bowler saying before the series he only expected to feature in three of the five Tests against England.
\nOpener Ben Duckett\u2019s 149, as England made light of a seemingly stiff chase of 371, underlined the lack of support for Bumrah after the spearhead quick took 5-83 in the first innings but no wickets at all in the second.<\/p>\n

\u201cBumrah is ready to play,\u201d India assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate told reporters on Monday.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s how we manage these four Tests. So if we feel like there\u2019s value in playing him in this Test, we\u2019ll make that call at the very last minute.\u201d<\/p>\n

India, who have now lost seven of their 11 Tests under coach Gautam Gambhi, could alter the balance of their attack by bringing in left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav, who didn\u2019t feature at Headingley. Yadav has taken 56 wickets at 22.16 in 13 Tests.<\/p>\n

\u2018Only one captain\u2019<\/p>\n

Batting collapses of 7-41, after they had been 430-3, and 6-31, from 333-4, proved costly for India at Headingley as they became the first side in more than 60,000 first-class matches to score five individual hundreds and still lose.<\/p>\n

They were also hindered by some woeful out-cricket with a series of straightforward catches going to ground, two of them off Harry Brook who was dropped off a no-ball before he had scored and then had lives on 46 and 82 as he went on to make a vital 99 in England\u2019s first innings.<\/p>\n

Shubman Gill, in his first match as India captain, led from the front with 147 in the first innings, and the good news for a team without retired skippers Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli is that ruthlessness with the bat is a quality that can be acquired.<\/p>\n

So too is authority in the field, with Rishabh Pant \u2014\u00a0who scored two hundreds at Headingley \u2014\u00a0and fellow century-maker KL Rahul too often looking as if they, rather than Gill, were calling the shots.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt one point I felt there were too many captains,\u201d former India spinner Murali Karthik told Cricbuzz. \u201cI just couldn\u2019t understand that. KL Rahul was making hand movements, Rishabh Pant was also doing it… There is only one captain.\u201d<\/p>\n

England, buoyed by achieving the tenth-highest fourth-innings chase in Test history, in what former skipper Michael Vaughan said was a display of \u201cBazball with brains\u201d, named an unchanged team on Monday.<\/p>\n

Home wicketkeeper Jamie Smith, who won the first Test with a six to finish on 44 not out, said at a media event staged by series sponsor Rothesay after last week\u2019s win: \u201cI think the really important thing is for the team to be quite ruthless and once you\u2019re on top, try to put them to bed.\u201d<\/p>\n

England lacked new-ball penetration in the first innings but their bowlers improved during the game.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, they have resisted the temptation to recall Jofra Archer and so end the express fast bowler\u2019s four years of injury-induced Test exile after naming the Sussex paceman in their Edgbaston squad.<\/p>\n

Instead veteran all-rounder Chris Woakes, leading an attack without retired pace greats James Anderson and Stuart Broad, will look to bolster his tally of 182 wickets in 58 Tests on his Warwickshire home ground this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI played a lot of my England games with Jimmy and Broady so it is different not having them around but also it\u2019s a great opportunity for myself,\u201d said Woakes, 36. \u201cI\u2019ve enjoyed that role so far and it\u2019s good to pass on some knowledge to the younger guys that haven\u2019t played as much Test cricket.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

India will make a \u201clast-minute\u201d decision on whether to risk the outstanding Jasprit Bumrah in successive Tests as they look to level their five-match series with England this week. Bumrah is the world\u2019s top-ranked Test bowler and, ordinarily, his selection for a match starting at Birmingham\u2019s Edgbaston ground on Wednesday, would be an obvious move […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}