{"id":48413,"date":"2026-10-19T12:14:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48413"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:14:38","slug":"shastri-urges-india-to-use-bumrah-sparingly-ahead-of-odi-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/shastri-urges-india-to-use-bumrah-sparingly-ahead-of-odi-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Shastri urges India to use Bumrah sparingly ahead of ODI World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">India should keep Jasprit Bumrah fresh for next year&#8217;s one-day international (ODI) World Cup by selecting him mainly for \u200btest cricket and using the pace spearhead sparingly in \u200cother formats, former coach Ravi Shastri said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Bumrah was recalled to India&#8217;s test squad for their two-match series in New Zealand last week, but \u200bwill not play in the five ODIs and five \u200bTwenty20 internationals that precede the tests.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Bumrah&#8217;s career has been \u2060disrupted by back injuries, with the 32-year-old having to \u200bundergo surgery in 2023.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>He was ruled out of a two-test \u200bseries against Sri Lanka in August due to a left knee injury, but returned to T20 action at the Asian Games and helped India \u200bwin gold.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think he should play all three formats \u200btill the ODI World Cup,&#8221; Shastri, who coached India from 2017 to \u200c2021, \u2060told Indian media on Sunday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;He should play test cricket and should play sporadically between one-day internationals and T20 cricket. He also shouldn&#8217;t be playing the whole lot.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I would rather preserve \u200bhim for \u200bthe test matches. \u2060That&#8217;s very important. He becomes a key member of that Indian side. Then he should \u200bbe used sparingly in the other formats.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Following \u200btheir tour \u2060of New Zealand, India will host Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe in limited-overs series, before hosting Australia in a five-test series \u2060which concludes \u200bin February.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The 2027 World Cup will \u200bbe held in SA, Zimbabwe and Namibia from October 2 to November \u200b21.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22148,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-48413","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The 2027 World Cup will \u200bbe held in SA, Zimbabwe and Namibia from October 2 to November \u200b21.","published_date":"","news_description":"The 2027 World Cup will \u200bbe held in SA, Zimbabwe and Namibia from October 2 to November \u200b21.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48416,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48413\/revisions\/48416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}