Missing Jasprit Bumrah’s test raises: attendance rate concerns?

Delhi: Now in the name of workload management, Jaspreet Bumrah not playing in any Test has become a regular news. The truth is that whatever test they do not play, not only affects the balance of India’s attack, the synergy of a set team also deteriorates. Those who are playing in their absence, they play more responsibility. From the Oval Test team against England, Bumrah is out on the advice of the medical team, however, for India, this is the Test of the series.

So what was being said before the series started in England and played only 3 out of 5 Tests (Handingley, Lords and Old Trafford). Bumrah did not bowl in Old Trafford since the morning of the fourth day and after that there was a three -day break before the commencement of the Oval Test, but this ‘rest’ was less. Similarly, the Handingley Test ended on 24 June and the Edgbaston Test started on 2 July, even then it fell short and he did not play in Edgbaston. As the series moved forward, his ball throwing it was also affected. While about 43 percent of its balls were thrown more than 140 kmph in the first innings in the headingley, the count in Lord’s was not about 22 and not even 1 percent in Old Trafford.

Bumrah plays only 48 Tests from 2018

Bumrah made his Test debut against South Africa in 2018 and played with the first Test that he could say that since then, he would have played every test for India. With that test, the Oval is the 76th Test for India and has played Bumrah in only 48 of them. That is why now knowing the superiority of any fast bowler, not just counting his wicket, he also sees his attendance rate, that is, in the total Tests he could play, how many of them were really played?

Whenever Bumrah is mentioned of choosing a test to play on his own, he is usually compared to James Anderson of England. Anderson’s Test career lasted almost 13 years and performed very impressive till the end. In his Test career, Anderson played in 69.9 percent of his team’s matches. When played in his case, it was also different. In the first few years, when the place was not confirmed in the team, only 30 percent of the Tests played, in their best phase, about 90 percent and the last few years when England started the work load management very seriously to prolong their career, this attendance rate remained 65 percent.

Bumrah’s recent performance

Bumrah is currently at about 63 percent (counting the Oval Test), ie almost the same attendance rate which was in the last years of Anderson’s Test career. It is a matter of note that work load management for Anderson has a difference of about 12 years in the last years of his Test career and the age of Bumrah. The attendance rate of most of the fast bowler who has made a Test debut in the 21st century is not surprising.

None of these compete with Kapil Dev. In his career, 131 out of 132 Tests in India, Kapil Dev played (he was fit for a test in which he did not play but did not take him in the team). In the last 50 years, courtney Walsh and Kurtli Ambros recorded an attendance rate of more than 90 percent. The highest 85.6 percent attendance rate among the current players is Kagiso Rabada. Talking about India, Mohammad Siraj has played in 41 Tests out of 51, that is, there is no complaint of 80.39 percent attendance rate and tiredness. Seeing this, it is understood that what kind of impact is Bumrah’s not playing test on the team?

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