India, Feb. 8 -- India's pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah missed the team's opening T20 World Cup match against the United States on Saturday after feeling slightly under the weather and skipping the training session the previous evening. With the opening fixture expected to be a one-sided affair, the Indian team management is in no mood to take any risk with its most important fast bowler at the very start of a long campaign, it is learnt.

Bumrah, central to India's white-ball plans, did not bowl at the nets on Friday, prompting speculation that he could be rested purely as a precautionary measure. He was running a bit of temperature. As the 32-year-old failed to recover in time, Mohammed Siraj, who joined the squad on Friday evening, join...