Jasprit Bumrah fitness: Mahela Jayawardene shares latest update on MI’s star pacer ahead of IPL 2025 | Ipl News

Mumbai Indians (MI) head coach Mahela Jayawardene opened up on his team’s Jasprit Bumrah situation as the India speedster continues to be out on the sidelines from the back-related injury issued he picked up in January during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia.
Bumrah has not made any significant moves in regaining his full fitness as yet and the MI pacer was also out of action when India lifted the Champions Trophy title in Dubai under Rohit Sharma two weeks back. Jayawardene said MI are awaiting the updates on Bumrah with anticipation as he charters his recovery at the National Cricket Academy’s Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru.
“Jasprit is with NCA, and just started the process there. Will await their feedback on him. Progress will be monitored on day-to-day basis. Not having him is a challenge and the world’s best bowler is always an advantage for us,” Jayawardene told reporters in Mumbai on Wednesday.
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The former Sri Lanka captain also said that the team will attempt to tweak and shuffle combinations early in the tournament without Bumrah. “He gives us a different element for trying things, so that in the early season we can experiment.”
Bumrah hasn’t played since the fifth Test against Australia in Sydney in January, when he walked off for scans on Day 2. Former MI bowling coach Shane Bond had recently cautioned India and Bumrah of not bearing excessive workload in the future.
“He’s too valuable for the next World Cup and stuff. So you’d be 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. And so how do they manage that is going to be key,” Bond told ESPNcricinfo.
“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.”Story continues below this ad
Bumrah was MI’s leading wicket-taker last year, nabbing 20 scalps in 13 matches.