Bond on Bumrah: ‘I wouldn’t want to be playing him in more than two Tests in a row’

This is the primary time Bumrah has suffered a again damage since he had surgical procedure in March 2023. Bond, who has labored with Bumrah in the previous – he was bowling coach with MI for a number of years – and is at present in India as bowling coach at Rajasthan Royals, mentioned that Bumrah’s workloads want to be managed conservatively to keep away from one other relapse.

The “danger” zone the place quick bowlers undergo accidents, in accordance to Bond, is after they shortly transition from T20 to Test cricket. And that, Bond highlighted, would be his main concern for Bumrah too, contemplating India will journey to England to play five-Test collection in June barely a month after the IPL ends on May 25.

“Look, I think Booms will be fine, but it’s just that [workload] management [matters],” Bond mentioned. “Looking at the tours and the schedule going forward, where are the opportunities to give him a break, but really where are the danger periods? And often it is that the [transition from] IPL to the Test championship will be a risk.

“Anywhere you transition from significantly T20 to a Test match, it is difficult. If you’re playing a one-day collection, it is usually not too dangerous. You will play three video games a week, you’ll have a observe, you’re form of in round that 40 overs [range], that is fairly shut to a Test match week anyway. But in T20, significantly in the IPL, if you may be playing three video games in a week, there’s two days of journey, you may get one coaching [session], you’re form of bowling 20 overs possibly if you happen to’re fortunate. That’s form of half of a Test match load and even underneath a half of, which then is a massive bounce and you aren’t bowling back-to-back days. That’s a massive bounce if you transition out of that.”

Going forward, Bond said, he would not want Bumrah to play more than two consecutive Tests at one go.

“He’s too priceless for the following World Cup and stuff. So you’d be 5 Tests in England, I wouldn’t want to be playing him in any more than two in a row. Coming out of the again finish of the IPL into a Test match goes to be a enormous danger. And so how do they handle that’s going to be key.

“Looking at five Tests in England, I wouldn’t want to be playing him in any more than two in a row. Coming out of the back end of the IPL into a Test match is going to be a huge risk.”

Shane Bond

“They may say, look, it’s four Test matches in total. Or three. If we can get him through the English summer and he’s fit, we can probably then go with some confidence that we can carry him across the rest of the formats. So that’s hard because he is your best bowler, but if he has another injury in the same spot, that could be a career-ender, potentially, because I’m not sure you can have surgery on that spot again.”

With the Indian home season over, the IPL is the one aggressive collection Bumrah can characteristic in earlier than the England tour. While Bond felt the IPL “maybe touch and go” for Bumrah, he mentioned “there will be an element of risk depending on the intensity that he’s bowling at by the time he gets back”.

Bond mentioned that it was additionally Bumrah’s accountability to work in tandem with the decision-makers in Indian cricket to chart out a protected path that will assist him lengthen his profession. “So it’s going to take some good management and just some open conversations with the player and say, look, we are doing this with your best interest in your career. Any player who’s gone through that, and having myself [gone through it], you are desperate to play, but you also understand there are some risks at certain times and you have to make some compromises.”

* The full interview will be revealed on ESPNcricinfo later this month.