A lower back injury Bumrah sustained in Sydney while playing for India in the fifth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 against Australia ruled him out of the 2025 Champions Trophy. world no. 1 Test bowler’s not showing was a great setback for Team India before the competition started. India had a red-hot form for last year. In twenty-fourteen, 13 tests and eight T20IS he accounted for 71 batsmen’ removal and 15 batsmen.’
Returned to bowling in the nets, Bumrah is a crucial Indian team element in all three formats of the game. Bumrah’s IPL team Mumbai Indians posted a video of him bowling in the nets and breaking stumps on Instagram on Thursday, February 27.
Before last year’s IPL 2025 mega auction, the Mumbai-based team kept Bumrah for Rs 18 crore. Set to begin on March 22 in Kolkata, the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League will see the fast bowler from Ahmedabad, aged 31, ready to helm MI’s pace attack.
On March 23, 2025, in the first game of IPL 2025, Mumbai will play against traditional opponents Chennai Super Kings.
Since then, Bumrah has been connected with the Mumbai Indians from his 2013 IPL debut. A back injury sustained during the ODI series against England in July 2023 led him to absent the 2023 edition of the world’s richest franchise cricket league.
For Team India too, Bumrah’s coming back is welcome news that applies against only MI. Starting on June 20 in Leeds, the five-match Test series against England will be of great import for India’s ICC Cricketer of the Year 2024.
Mumbai Indians’ squad for IPL 2025: Hardik Pandya (C), Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Rohit Sharma, Tilak Varma, Trent Boult, Naman Dhir, Robin Minz (WK), Karn Sharma, Ryan Rickelton (WK), Deepak Chahar, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Will Jacks, Ashwani Kumar, Mitchell Santner, Reece Topley, Krishnan Shrijith, Raj Bawa, Satyanarayana Raju, Bevon Jacobs, Arjun Tendulkar, Lizaad Williams, Vignesh Puthur.
