IND v ENG: 'Team's needs more important' - Ex-Eng cricketer on Bumrah's availability

Former England cricketer Mark Butcher has weighed successful connected the increasing speculation astir Jasprit Bumrah's availability for the 2nd Test astatine Edgbaston, urging India to prioritise the team's needs implicit workload absorption strategies.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!India way 0-1 successful the five-match bid aft England pulled disconnected a grounds 371-run pursuit successful the 4th innings astatine Headingley. Bumrah was outstanding successful the archetypal innings with figures of 5/83, but went wicketless successful the 2nd arsenic England's Bazball juggernaut rolled on.

"Bumrah is going to beryllium a immense talking constituent arsenic to whether oregon not this is 1 of his 3 Test matches," Butcher told Wisden.

"I deliberation it has to be, it perfectly has to be. Six-day interruption aft Headingley, 1-0 down, helium plays. I cognize helium wants to play astatine Lord's but the needs of the squad and the bid are much important than his privation to play a Test astatine Lord's."

Captain Gill said the determination would beryllium connected transportation conditions, but confirmed that Bumrah is afloat disposable for selection. "We volition instrumentality a telephone aft looking astatine the surface," Gill said.

If Bumrah is rested for the Edgbaston Test, Mohammed Siraj is expected to pb the gait attack, with Arshdeep Singh and Prasidh Krishna apt to support.Butcher added that India indispensable absorption connected leveling the bid present and deliberation astir rotating Bumrah later. "And who knows, helium mightiness get done this 1 good and beryllium good for Lord's, and past you instrumentality your chances astatine the back-end," helium said.