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Bumrah at the beginning of IPL 2025 'a challenge', says Jayawarden

Not Having Jasprit Bumrah for the Initial Stails of Ipl 2025 “Is a Challenge” and “Hopefully He Can Join the Team”, Mahela Jayaware, The Mumbai Indians (mi) Head Coach, Said at a Press Interaction in Mumbai On Wednesday, Adding that the Pacer ” Recovers at the BCCI's Center of Excellence (Formerly the National Cricket Academy) in Bengaluru.

“Jasprit is currently with NCA. He has just started his progress,” said Jayawarden. “We have to wait and see what yours [BCCI medical team] Feedback is on him. Everything is going well at the moment. But of course it's every day. He is in a good mood. Not having him is a challenge. He is one of the best bowlers in the world and a fantastic professional for us for many years.

“We have to wait or find an opportunity to get up. That's how I see it. It gives us an element to try a few things and see how things work. The early part of the season enables us to do that.”

From 2013, Bumrah played his entire IPL cricket for Mi and picked up 165 gates in 133 games over the years.

The Mi -Kader has Trent Boult, Deepak Chahhar and Reece Topley together with Captain Hardik Pandya, the all -rounder, and the unkempt Indian bowlers Ashwani Kumar, Satyanarayana Raju and Arjun Tendulkar. Bumrah's absence could enforce a revision of MIS bowling plans, since Boult and Chal are mostly power players and they have not proven how they were demonstrated in death.

As Espncricinfo reported last week, Bumrah has not recovered from the stress -related back injury, which has had it out of operation since January.

On the second day of the last border Gavascar trophy test in Sydney on January 4, he suffered the injury. Bumrah was then excluded from the Champions Trophy, the India won at the beginning of this month. This is the first time that Bumrah has lost a back injury since his operation in March 2023.

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Bond: Transition from IPL to test a danger period for Bumrah

The former bowling trainer of Mumbai -Indians talks about the importance of Bumrah's workload management

While he announced the Champions Trophy Squad in January, Ajit Agarkar, the chief selection of India, explained that Bumrah was asked by the BCCI Medical Team to derive for at least five weeks (from the SCG test). Since the Champions Trophy only began on February 19, Bumrah had been included in the provisional squad of India. He traveled to Bengaluru in early February to be fresh scans, but continued to feel uncomfortable and was not named in the last squad.

The first two IPL 2025 games from Mi are gone. You start your campaign in Chennai against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on March 23 and play Titans (GT) on March 29 in Ahmedabad Gujarat. The first home game of MIS is two days later when she Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) from March 31st against Kolkata Knight Riders (LSG) in the first week of April against two games in the first week in the Hotnow -Hoocknow -Suppow (LSSG) in April. Bengaluru (RCB) on April 7th.