{"id":312111,"date":"2025-08-02T14:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/312111\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T14:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:19:10","slug":"jasprit-bumrah-needs-a-proper-off-season-australia-cricket-great-glenn-mcgrath-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/312111\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Jasprit Bumrah needs a proper off-season\u2019: Australia cricket great Glenn McGrath | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\u2018Jasprit CHENNAI: Premier pacer Jasprit Bumrah<\/a>\u2019s workload management has been a matter of intense discussion in Indian cricket<\/a> circles for a while now.Given his sheer quality and the xfactor which he possesses, India have been wrapping Bumrah in cotton wool. As a result, India \u2013 opting to stick to their original plan of playing him in only three Tests during the England tour \u2013 had to field a XI sans the ace fast bowler at the Oval, in conditions where he could have proved to be a handful for England batters.While India appear to be sorely missing Bumrah\u2019s bag of tricks on a green top in the ongoing fifth Test, legendary Australian pacer Glenn McGrath<\/a> is of the view that the men who matter have had to take \u201ctough\u201d decisions due to Bumrah\u2019s unique qualities.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cYou want him to be playing as many games as possible because he is a match winner. But it is a tough one because he has a unique bowling style. He puts more stress on his body than other fast bowlers,\u201d said McGrath, the director of the MRF Pace Foundation here.\u201cIn Australia, whenever Bumrah played, the matches were tight. But unfortunately, when he played backto-back matches, he had injury concerns. A lot of it depends on the captain and hierarchy and more so him (Bumrah), what he feels he can do,\u201d McGrath added.Asked if the Shubman Gill-led India could have managed Bumrah better by reducing the volume of overs in the matches that he played, McGrath said, \u201cYou want your best bowler bowling (for long) and him wanting to bowl as well. If Bumrah bowls in short spells, the batting team can just get through those three-four overs. India need another group of fast bowlers coming through to ensure Bumrah does not have to bowl long spells. India need other bowlers who can equally carry the workload.\u201d<\/p>\n

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McGrath insisted that pacers like Bumrah will continue to suffer bumps in the road if they do not have a \u201cproper off-season\u201d that usually lasts two months. Since many India internationals play round the year, they hardly get time away from competitive cricket.\u201cIt is important for a fast bowler to have an off-season. If you just keep playing year in, year out, things (injuries) will happen. That is the nature of the beast. Good bowling action, good genetics and good work off the field are needed to get strong. There may be a freak who can bowl all day every day, but 99.9% of the fast bowlers need an off-season.\u201d\u2018Test cricket alive and well\u2019The battles in India\u2019s last two away tours \u2013 to Australia and England \u2013 have provided McGrath hope that Test cricket is still in a good state. \u201cI felt that Test cricket was struggling a bit, but the two series (Australia-India and England-India) have shown that Test cricket is alive and well, especially in those countries,\u201d McGrath said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHENNAI: Premier pacer Jasprit Bumrah\u2019s workload management has been a matter of intense discussion in Indian cricket circles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[113959,1406,113958,113957,99820,50335,16397,11539,79,31647,16,15,113956],"class_list":{"0":"post-312111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-australian-cricket","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-england-cricket-tour","11":"tag-fast-bowlers","12":"tag-glenn-mcgrath","13":"tag-ind-vs-eng","14":"tag-india-cricket-team","15":"tag-jasprit-bumrah","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-test-cricket","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-workload-management"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114959611534089111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}