The Indian team has reached Dubai for the ICC Champions Trophy. The Indian team led by Rohit Sharma will launch their campaign against Bangladesh on 20 February. However, this time India will definitely miss its match winner Jaspreet Bumrah, who could not recover from injury and was out of the Champions Trophy. BCCI has included Harshit Rana in the team in his place. According to the reports, the selectors did not want to take any risk about Jaspreet Bumrah. The biggest reason for this is that this fast bowler is being seen as India’s future Test captain.
Decision to take no risk about Bumrah
According to the Hindustan Times report, it was difficult for him when the medical team of the National Cricket Academy headed by Nitin Patel, in connection with Bumrah’s participation in the Champions Trophy, it was difficult for him to choose from the ball, the president of the selectors Ajit Agarkar.
The NCA said in its report that nothing is wrong in Bumrah’s latest scan report, but the number 1 rank fast bowler has not started completely bowling yet. Since the Champions Trophy was barely a week away, the selectors and the team management did not want to take any risk.
There was also a need to not take risks with Bumrah because the board is seeing him as a future captain. The BCCI has finally finalized Bumrah as the next Test captain of India.
BCCI made up his mind regarding Rohit
Hindustan Times quoted news agency PTI as saying that now the name of India’s current captain Rohit Sharma is unlikely to be considered for the Test and Bumrah, appointed Test Vice-captain, Bumrah from the tour of England in June-July this year Will handle the captaincy.
According to the report, “It is understood that the main reason for the controversy was that Bumrah has not yet started bowling completely and those who know about things said that it is very difficult to match and get in such a short time. . ” “He can return to Mumbai Indians in the IPL and then lead India in England as Rohit Sharma is unlikely to be selected for the Test.”
Bumrah has captained before
Let me tell you, Bumrah has led India in three Tests so far. On both occasions, Rohit was unavailable. When Bumrah had to take off the fifth and final Test against England in Birmingham in 2022, the opener was struggling with Kovid. India lost the test, but Bumrah showed signs of being a good leader.
He got the next chance when Rohit arrived in Australia for the birth of his second child later last year. In the first match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Perth, Bumrah won India on his own. Incidentally, this was the only Test in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series, which Team India won.
After this, when Rohit decided to keep himself out of the last Test of the series against Australia, Bumrah took the captaincy again. Unfortunately, Bumrah was injured after throwing only 10 overs in the match.
Last year was a bad dream for Rohit
The year 2024 was very poor for Rohit Sharma. He scored runs at an average of less than 25 last year. Since winning the T20 World Cup, Rohit’s form, especially in Test cricket, has deteriorated. The veteran right -handed player scored only 164 runs in his last eight Tests at an average of 10.9.
However, Rohit has announced that there is no plan to retire from any format, but it seems that the board has already interacted with them keeping in mind the future. Rohit will turn 38 in April. He will turn 40 by the next final of the World Test Championship. Given their falling form, the selectors wanted to consider a permanent option.
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