Indian team's experienced fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has broken his silence over the captaincy of the Test team. Bumrah says that he had turned down the offer of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to become the Test captain during the IPL. Speaking to Sky Sports, Bumrah said that he is managing his workload and he needs to be more sensible to play for a long time.

Bumrah has been struggling with injury problems.

For the last few years, Bumrah has been struggling with injury problems and he had to withdraw from the fifth match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia due to injury. Due to injury, Bumrah could not be a part of the Champions Trophy which India won under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma. Bumrah said that the BCCI wanted him to take charge of the Indian team after Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli retired from Tests.

Bumrah said, during the IPL, before Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli retired, I spoke to the BCCI. I discussed the workload going forward in the five-match Test series. I have spoken to those who were looking after my back problem. We came to the conclusion that I have to be a little more cautious. Then I called the BCCI that I did not want to be seen in the role of captain as I would not be able to play all the Test matches. Gill was appointed captain Bumrah said, 'BCCI was looking at me for the role of captain, but I had to refuse them because it is not ideal that someone leads in three Test matches, then someone else has to captain the rest of the Test matches. So it is not fair to the team, because I wanted to give priority to the team.' Chief selector Ajit Agarkar appointed Shubman Gill as India's next Test captain while announcing the Indian team for the England tour. After Rohit's retirement, there was a lot of debate about who should lead the team, but Gill had overtaken Bumrah in this race.

PC Social media