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Legendary India cricketer Kapil Dev questioned if Jasprit Bumrah will be able to to sustain his fitness and form in the coming years with his unorthodox bowling action. Though Bumrah has made the life of opposing batters very difficult with his short run-up, the action has also ended up increasing concerns over his fitness especially in the recent years.
Bumrah's international career has been marred with injuries and the 31-year-old had recently also missed the 2025 Champions Trophy due to a back spasm which he sustained during the fifth and final Test of the Border-Gavaskar series 2024/25 against Australia.
Kapil feels that even though the awkward bowling action has been a key factor in Bumrah's success with the Indian team, he also raised questions as to whether the 31-year-old will be able to sustain it without getting injured in the coming future.
"There are two things that always come out. Any bowler in the world with an awkward action takes that much difficult time for a batter to pick the ball like Malinga. Those types of bowlers we don't practice in the nets, and suddenly out of the blue, somebody comes with a different action, a difficult action, that fraction of a second, if you can't pick what he's trying to do, that is good enough for a bowler," Kapil said on 'The Squirrels' YouTube channel.
“So, Bumrah has become very good because nobody could imagine from a batsman's point of view that in such a short run up, he can generate such big pace. His action is not like an athlete's action; that's why Bumrah can be devastating for the opposition. But can he sustain that for a period of 10 or 12 years, which, as a cricketer, we feel is difficult,” he added.
Bumrah was rested for 2 Tests against England
Meanwhile, Bumrah had recently featured for India in three Tests out of five in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. He had been rested for two matches by the team management in order to manage his workload. However, former cricketers like Sandeep Patil and Mohammad Azharuddin have questioned this move, asking why the pacer was rested even though he was fit.
Bumrah finished the series with a total of 14 scalps under his name from just 5 innings. Though it wasn't a bad performance by any means, he failed to get the Men in Blue to a victory in any of the matches he featured in. In fact, the two matches that the visitors won were the games where the 31-year-old was rested. It remains to be seen if Bumrah will feature in any of the two Tests that India is set to play against West Indies at home in October.
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