Jasprit Bumrah participation within the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 continues to be not a assure, with India’s tempo spearhead nonetheless serving his five-week relaxation tenure as he makes an attempt to get well from a again difficulty. Bumrah suffered the damage within the last Take a look at of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. In gentle of the state of affairs, former South African pacer Vernon Philander has suggested that it might be wiser to handle Bumrah’s workload and never make him play all of India’s video games, notably in “much less necessary matches”.
Philander emphasised that the staff administration, presently headed by chief selector Ajit Agarkar and head coach Gautam Gambhir, could have to have a tricky chat with Bumrah on resting him for some video games.
“I feel it is extra about how the Indian administration manages him. They must handle his workload in between tournaments,” Philander stated in a media interplay throughout the SA20 event.
“I might say, you maybe wish to take a look at taking part in him in all the primary options, and provides different bowlers a possibility in much less necessary matches,” he added.
Bumrah can be absent from India’s squad for the three-match ODI sequence towards England, with Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh and Harshit Rana chosen because the pacers.
Philander additionally stretched his focus to the Indian Premier League (IPL) and the way Bumrah might be made out there for such a event.
“With IPL arising, you need a participant like him to be out there for many video games however how do you handle him all through the IPL season?”
“It is such a tricky chat to have, as a result of as a bowler, you wish to go on the market, you recognize, there’s information to be damaged, so that you wish to preserve taking part in,” Philander stated, on the subject of asking Bumrah to be rested.
India kickstart their Champions Trophy marketing campaign on February 20, in lower than two weeks’ time.
