‘He was used like you squeeze juice from sugarcane’ – Harbhajan Singh on Jasprit Bumrah’s role in BGT 2024-25

Harbhajan Singh on Jasprit Bumrah’s role in BGT 2024-25 (Source: Visionhaus/Getty Images and Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

India are coming off a 3-1 series loss to Australia in the 2024-25 edition of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. None of the senior players stepped up to the task. However, Jasprit Bumrah truly gave it his all. He was the go-to person for navigating through any sort of crisis. The premium speedster ended up as the Player of the Series, ending up with 32 wickets in nine innings.

Former Indian cricketer, Harbhajan Singh, was critical of the team management and the side to be overly reliant on Bumrah for almost any sort of situation encountered by them.

“He was used like you squeezed juice from sugarcane. It was like, ‘Travis Head has come, give the ball to Bumrah, Marnus has come, give the ball to Bumrah, Steve Smith has come, give the ball to Bumrah’. How many overs will Bumrah bowl?,” expressed Harbhajan in a video posted on his YouTube channel.

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You broke his back: Harbhajan

Harbhajan partially held the team management accountable for the back spasm Bumrah was diagnosed with.

“He has been reduced to such a condition that he was not available at the end. If he was there, Australia may have won the fifth Test but they would have lost eight wickets, and it would have been tough for them. You broke his back. The management should have decided on how many overs he should be given,” he added.

For the unversed, Bumrah was off to the hospital to assess the extent of the back spasms he experienced ahead of Australia’s run-chase in the Sydney Test. India were reduced to operate with Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna to make the contest as closely contested as possible. However, Australia ended up winning by six wickets to clinch the BGT title after a decade.

As per multiple reports, Bumrah might miss the entirety of the T20I series against England due to the extent of his injury. The grade of Bumrah’s back spasm is unknown for the time being.

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