Jasprit Bumrah must adjust, not Indian cricket: Sanjay Manjrekar

17-Aug-2025

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Sanjay Manjrekar has weighed in on the debate around Jasprit Bumrah's workload management and said that the star pacer should make adjustments for Indian cricket and not the other way around. Manjrekar said that no player is indispensable and that should be the method used to handle the star pacer.

"The game will always show us the mirror, however much we try and gloss over things. It was poetic justice that the two Tests India won were two matches Bumrah did not play."

"This should embolden the Indian selectors to make some hard choices when it comes to big-name players. This series has been a great lesson to them and to us too, the two Tests victories India achieved did not feature Virat (Kohli), (Cheteshwar) Pujara, Rohit (Sharma), (Mohammed) Shami and Bumrah too! It reminded us of the eternal truth of sport and life, no one, however great, is indispensable. And this is how India must handle Bumrah," wrote Manjrekar in column for Hindustan Times.