Follow UsIndia’s ace pacer Jasprit Bumrah has been released from the Indian squad after he wasn’t a part of the playing XI for India in the final Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy at the Oval in London.
The BCCI released a statement stating that, “Mr Jasprit Bumrah has been released from India’s squad for the fifth Test of the series against England. The fifth and final Test of the series is underway at Kennington Oval, London.”
Earlier, India’s assistant coach Ryan Ten Doeschate had revealed the reasons why India’s best pacer in the series wasn’t considered for the Oval Test.
"You know, he did say he was going to play three games. He left it up to us which three he played. We've tried to manage the situation," ten Doeschate said in the press conference after Day 1.
"You know, we obviously want to wheel him out, but we also want to respect where his body's at," ten Doeschate said.
"And on the basis of that, we just felt that it wasn't worth including him in the squad [XI for the Oval Test]. You know, he has bowled a large number of overs. I know it doesn't always seem like that because he's only played three Tests and he only bowled in one innings in Manchester,” he added.
"But if you look at the loads, he has bowled a lot of overs. And like he said coming into the tour, he was going to be available for three games. And we just felt it was right to honour that call."
India are struggling in the Oval Test at the moment, after ending their first innings on 224 and allowing the English opening pair to race to 50 with no loss within eight overs.
India’s updated squad for fifth Test: Shubman Gill (C), KL Rahul (VC), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sai Sudharsan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Karun Nair, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel (WK), Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Mohd. Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Kuldeep Yadav, Anshul Kamboj, Arshdeep Singh, N Jagadeesan (WK)