For Indian fans, which event should Jasprit Bumrah prioritize: Champions Trophy 2025 or the Test series against England?

[Fanboy375]

Eng series is part of Test championship so losing this will cost a lot.Also Ind didn't make it to the final of this TC so next on should be their go to target for winning.You can still play in next world cup even if you lose champions trophy but that can't be true for Eng series

 

[The Bald Eagle]

You always has some comprehensive issue . I said there was zero marketing for the champions trophy till now at the outside the Pindi stadium. Why?

And my friend @The Bald Eagle silently seeing the post still unable to answer my question .

My friend, I am not following such news but I agree on one thing that Indians are hell bent to find faults in CT 2025 and Mohsin Naqvi trying his best to not disappoint them

 

[Devadwal]

My friend, I am not following such news but I agree on one thing that Indians are hell bent to find faults in CT 2025 and Mohsin Naqvi trying his best to not disappoint them

Yes indians has stopped PCB from marketing the champion trophy. Nvm

 

[jnaveen1980]

Nothing to do with Pakistan hosting this. Would have disliked even if it were hosted by Srilanka or England or Australia. It is a needless tournament with so many leagues, twice a year world T20, WTC going around. That is why i wish INdia had sent a B team for this. But unfortunately this is the only pyjama format our superstars play.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

You always has some comprehensive issue . I said there was zero marketing for the champions trophy till now at the outside the Pindi stadium. Why?

And my friend @The Bald Eagle silently seeing the post still unable to answer my question .

Comprehensive? Oh, you mean comprehension? At least learn the difference before trying to act like the cool banda.

 

[Devadwal]

Comprehensive? Oh, you mean comprehension? At least learn the difference before trying to act like the cool banda.

Samj gya na kafi hai wo.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Champions trophy became lame only because Pakistan was hosting it.. There was no other reason.

But the OP who is one of the most patriotic Indians on these forums has already said that winning in SENA is only comparable to winning a world title. What has that got to do with the hosts in Asia? For some Indians it seems winning in England is more important than anything else, even if the majority of English people don't even take cricket as a serious sport.

 

[The Bald Eagle]

Indian friends need to snap out of their fantasies, they are not going to face England in India so be wary of the outcomes and for CT they are over prepared so no tensions here.

 

[RizwanT20Champ]

Bumrah is currently under rehabilitation. As an indian i believe that Bumrah should focus on 2025 England series?

For me its England series..A test series win in SENA is only comparable to a world title.

@mominsaigol would argue for CT one feels.

 

[Champ_Pal]

Well, India can kiss their chances good bye with the exclusion of Bumrah who is injured.

Rana could have replaced Shami who is not a good LOI bowler in my opinion. He cannot execute at the death. Not sure what he is doing in the squad. In fact I don’t like Rana’s bowling either.

Varun is a good inclusion.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Good !!! He can relax. It is nuts to play this after 10 tests

 

[Local.Dada]

Champions Trophy is an insignificant tournament. It was going to be scrapped in 2013 but India ended up winning it so gave it another lifeline. Then in 2017 a dream India vs Pak final with Pak winning gave it a mega lifeline. This should be the last tournament regardless of the winner. Odi is a dying format and I don’t see a point of T20 version of Champions trophy when we have a T20 World up every alternate year.

So my answer is good. We need Bumrah for England tests and the next WTC cycle instead of this pointless tournament.

 

[jeeteshssaxena]

Test Series in England.

 

[mominsaigol]

@mominsaigol would argue for CT one feels.

I believe he should play England test series

 

[Devadwal]

The worse thing is even after Bumrah is out & seeing Shami bowling absolute dogshit, they didn't care to have another seamer instead they thought we will add another spinner when they already have 4 in the squad. Brainless selection

 

[U$ofA]

I believe he should play England test series

He will play the IPL. So all bets are off till IPL ends. Call will be made on the Eng series depending on his fitness at the end of the IPL.

 

[BouncerGuy]

Bumrah is already out of Champions trophy so obviously, he will now be eying the England test series...

 

[Usman Chadda]

All the evidence points to India taking the CT quite seriously as compared to Australia who have rested pretty much everyone and send a bunch of noob bowlers to get bashed on flat wickets in an ICC tournament.

 

[Devadwal]

All the evidence points to India taking the CT quite seriously as compared to Australia who have rested pretty much everyone and send a bunch of noob bowlers to get bashed on flat wickets in an ICC tournament.

So australian team player's are taking the IPL more seriously than ICC events, Right?

 

[RamLakhan]

Yes, ODI cricket had it moments back till 90s (It was already dying in 2000s once 2 new ball rule came and scoring 300s became normal) Back then everyone's life was slow and they felt ODI as exciting (a faster version compared to Tests).

Now T20 is the quicker & exciting format of cricket! Unless ODI gets back to its old days (red ball, single ball and day games), it won't become exciting. OR now with Day/Night games, an extended T20 like spliting it into 4 X 25 overs games (two 25 overs innings to both teams, using single ball at both ends, retaining the same ball to 2nd innings and then bring a new ball in the middle of the 2nd innnings, also with follow-on options) this can make it a proper quicker version of tests (including testing skills of players which is lacking in T20).

This type of ODI will be exciting than T20, demands proper skills from players plus negates the advantage of toss/home conditions as compared to tests!) Tendulkar dreamt about this concept much before the progress of T20s, once ODI started to become monotonous & too batting friendly & too much toss factor (scoreboard pressure when there is no dew/chasing getting easier when there is dew)...

Anyhow at the moment T20 & Tests can become more popular and exciting if ODIs are banned... ODIs in the sense are diluting the quality of cricket... (If ODIs are banned, then guys like Kohli, Rohit, Rahul, Jadeja, etc, can either concentrate and play only in tests OR retire altogether & play only IPL. ODIs are allowing them to make back door entries to even tests & T20s).

Also tests are surviving because of bowling-friendly conditions (so people are seeing contrast in tests in comparison to T20s where bat is dominating, so people are interested in watching tests), if they bring back flat pitches in tests, then tests will also die, and only T20 will flourish! But an altered ODI format (which I proposed) can not only become more popular than tests & T20s, but it can also challenge soccer and make entry to olympics (because it will look similar to 2 Rounds format as in Football, hockey, etc)

 

[MP2011]

So australian team player's are taking the IPL more seriously than ICC events, Right?

You never know Australia can still end up winning CT!