'I don't think there will be any problem for him to play...': Sunil Gavaskar dismisses workload worries for Jasprit Bumrah in Asia Cup 2025

Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar believes that pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah will have no workload-related issues in the upcoming edition of the Asia Cup 2025. The mega event is scheduled to start from September 9, and defending champions India will start their campaign the next day against the UAE.

Gavaskar further explained that the legendary pacer will feature in all matches of the mega event since it will be only four overs of bowling per match, and that too in two or three spells.

"In this Asia Cup, it is just a question of bowling four overs and that too it is not four overs at a stretch...So I don't think there will be any problem for him to play this tournament.

"I mean there will be no workload problem for him because he has to bowl only four overs and there can be no problem" said Gavaskar on Sony Sports Network.

Bumrah faced a lot of criticism after he decided to play three Tests of the five-match series of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy 2025 against England to manage his workload. The speedster played first, third and fourth matches of the series, which ended in a 2-2 draw.

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After the five-Test match series against England, Bumrah is all set to lead India's pace attack in the upcoming Asia Cup 2025 alongside Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana. Team India have reached Dubai for the mega event and had a full-fledged practice session at the ICC Academy.

Bumrah will make his T20I comeback after a long break; his last appearance in the format came in the 2024 T20 World Cup final in Bridgetown, where his 2/18 helped India secure a seven-run win over South Africa and became the player-of-the-series with 15 wickets.

India’s fixtures at Asia Cup:

India vs UAE – September 10

India vs Pakistan – September 14

India vs Oman – September 19.

India’s squad for Asia Cup: Surya Kumar Yadav (C), Shubman Gill (VC), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (WK), Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh

Standby players: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Prasidh Krishna, Washington Sundar, Riyan Parag and Dhruv Jurel