New Delhi, April 2 -- Jasprit Bumrah's return to competitive cricket has been delayed, according to a report in The Times of India. Bumrah hasn't started to bowl at full throttle at the BCCI's Center of Excellence (CoE), formerly National Cricket Academy (NCA), in Bengaluru.

Jaspirt Bumrah sustained a lower back injury during the fifth Test between Australia and India in Sydney in January. It has been understood that Bumrah is clinically fit, but the workload has been carefully monitored, so that he won't suffer a stress fracture. No definitive timeline has been set for Bumrah's comeback.

Shane Bond, former New Zealand pacer, whose career got curtailed due to recurring injuries opined that he wouldn't be playing Bumrah in more than two ...