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Saturday, Jun 28, 2025
Bumrah has been ruled out of the home Test series against South Africa after suffering a stress fracture in his back.
Bumrah finished as the leading wicket-taker in the series with 13 dismissals at an exceptional average of 9.23.
The Indians wrapped up both Tests inside four days riding on some fine batting performances by the middle order duo of Rahane and Vihari and quality fast bowling by Bumrah and Ishant.
Sources in the know of developments said that the pacer went through an assessment post the Diwali break and the recovery is on track and the bowler should be back in action at the start of the new year.
Kohli is sitting pretty at the top of the rankings for batsmen with 895 rating points.
Recovering at a steady pace from his injury, Bumrah brought to the fore his stylish self by 'playing it cool' with a picture of him decked in casual-formals on Instagram.
Rishabh Pant has jumped as many as 21 places to be 17th, the joint-highest by a specialist India wicketkeeper along with Farokh Engineer, who did so in January 1973.
With 21 scalps, Bumrah ended the four-Test series as the joint-leading wicket-taker alongside Australian off-spinner Nathan Lyon.
Bumrah tormented the Windies batsmen with his deadly in-dippers as they did not stand a chance in front of him and looked like amateurs in white flannels.
'I think she does it better than me ! I can safely say I am a bigger fan of hers than she is of me," Bumrah said with the video which shows Samaira being asked by Rohit's wife, Ritika, to show what 'Bum-Bum does'.
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