Would Jasprit Bumrah Like to Be Rested in Match Against Sri Lanka?
Fans of Indian cricket always want Bumrah to be wrapped in cotton wool as he is precious but he doesn’t want that.
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Jasprit Bumrah, a premier practitioner of lethal yorkers who considers his mastery in the art form to be just about "decent" said he wants to play as many games as possible in the ongoing tournament.
Bumrah's toe-crushers had already sent his injured teammate Vijay Shankar back home and on Tuesday, he confirmed Bangladesh's return ticket from World Cup with back-to-back toe-crushers.
Fans of Indian cricket always want Bumrah to be wrapped in cotton wool as he is precious but the cricketer himself doesn't want that.
Asked if he would like to be rested against Sri Lanka now that India have qualified for the semi-finals of the World Cup, the answer was an emphatic no.
"This is my first World Cup, so I want to play as many games as possible. I don't think I've become an experienced player that I could say I don't want to play some games," said Bumrah, who despite being indispensable in this current India set-up, doesn't take things for granted.
"Yeah, I always look forward to playing, and the more number of matches you play, you enjoy more," he insisted, gaving enough indications that given a choice, he won't like to rest against Sri Lanka in the last league game at Leeds.
Bumrah has traversed quite a distance from that widely criticised no-ball to Pakistan's Fakhar Zaman in the 2017 Champions Trophy final but in his core, he remains the simple person.
"I think I'm still the same person, maybe two years older. I always want to keep learning. I want to keep evolving. That has always been my game."
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