Jasprit Bumrah, subject to injuries, has only played 64% of India tests since its inception

Since he made his test debut in 2018, almost everyone knew it, Jasprit Bumrah has been to have a great career. We did not know that he would soon be the best bowler in the world. At 31, with only 46 tests to his credit, he has 210 counters, with an average of 19, a typing rate of 42, including 14 fifers.

Jasprit Bumrah – The Bowling Player in the World

In 2024 alone, he recovered 71 counters in 13 tests, with an average of 14 years. This also includes 32 counters in the Border-Gavaskar trophy, where he was the army of a single man, in the Bowling attack in India. No wonder, it is special, not only for India, but the world. This rarity has a lot to do with its hard work, and a little to do with its bowling action.

But injuries have blocked his career

And this very bowling action makes him very sensitive to injuries. I mean, who would have imagined that Jasprit Bumrah played his first test in India, only in 2021. And, at home, to date has succeeded 12 games, of which only 10 have come in 2024 – against England, Bangladesh and New Zealand.

Now it is only worth it, to follow the number of injuries he has suffered so far in his career and how many games have it missed in his career. In what could have been his very first tour in England in 2018, he underwent a fracture of the thumb and was excluded from the whole series. Then, in September 2019, a lower stress fracture saw it miss the series of tests against South Africa and Bangladesh.

Could have played 70 games now

2021 saw him undergo an abdominal tension, due to which he missed the decisive test against Australia, in Brisbane. Another back injury saw him miss the series of Australian at home in 2023. In fact, he could not participate in the WTC final against Australia.

Overall, Bumrah has missed 26 tests so far, in his career, due to injury and rest. It is an amazing 36% of the total games, India played during this period – 72 in all. In the matches it has played, India won 20 and lost 22. While in those it is not there, India won 18 and lost 5.

(Statistics from Wisden.com)