With Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah missing India’s training session at Brisbane on Tuesday ahead of the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy starting Saturday, Indian team management has its concerns. While Bumrah was seen spending time with India’s strength and conditioning coach on Tuesday, the 31-year-old has not bowled in nets this week. With Indian bowling coach Morne Morkel terming Bumrah showing signs of discomfort in the first innings in the Pink Ball Test match at Adelaide last week as ‘just a cramp’, former Australian pacer Damien Fleming believes there are ‘some serious doubts’ over Bumrah’s condition.
“There’s got to be some serious doubts. Siraj might be workload (related) but I’m bemused Bumrah bowled that over. They could have hid this. They showed their hand.Siraj might be workload (related) but I’m bemused Bumrah bowled that over. They could have hid this. They showed their hand,” Fleming told SEN Radio.
Bumrah was seen holding his thigh during the 81st over of the Australia;s first innings at Adelaide post which he called for some treatment. The 31-year-old bowled later in the innings and also bowled in Australia’s second innings but Fleming questioned him bowling in the second innings. “There’s no way that’s cramp. He was very ginger after the break in the first innings. He bowled again, not quite as slow as the second innings. I don’t even know why he bowled that over (in the second innings). That actually gave some secrets away to everyone.” Fleming said further.
Meanwhile, former Australian wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist had praised Australian skipper Pat Cummins for his seven-wicket haul in Australia’s ten-wicket win over India at Adelaide.
“You could see just through his celebrations that… every wicket that he took he was more aggressive in his celebration. Not in that lose control extent but you could just see that clearly they’d been stung by a bit of criticism around after their performance (in Perth) and they internally would have been so disappointed with the way they played in Perth. Cummins was outstanding, he looked like if there needed a bit of a grease and oil change after Perth and a tune up, he was purring by the end of it, so that was terrific to watch,” Glchrist said on The Follow-on podcast on Fox Cricket.
