Since Jasprit Bumrah has already bowled a lot of overs in the Headingley Test, former India cricketer Dinesh Karthik has stated that he doesn't think he would want to participate in the second Test match against England at Edgbaston.

However, after a defeat in the series opener, it has become a difficult decision. The Indian team is more dependent on Bumrah's services than they initially believed, as demonstrated by the Headingley series opener.

Being behind 0-1 has led to a heated discussion about Bumrah's game selection.

According to Karthik, the star pacer would prefer to wait for the Lord's Test, which starts on July 10 and gives him more than two weeks off, rather than play on a flat ground at Edgbaston.

“First of all, we need to see if Bumrah is playing. I doubt Bumrah would want to play at Edgbaston. I would think that he would wait. It is flat and it would give his body more time, he has bowled a lot of overs in this game. The more rest, the better for him. I think he would love playing at Lord’s, but it is not about what he wants, but what the team feels he has to do as well,” Karthik said on Cricbuzz.

“Everything about England tells you that you don’t need to play more than one spinner. If you are playing two spinners, then that genuinely weakens your batting. They need to be very sure of one thing: they can’t think what England will do. What England are doing is very simple, they have picked even if it is an ordinary bowling and are saying you give us whatever you want to chase, we will back ourselves to do it," Karthik added.

Jasprit Bumrah has confirmed that he’ll play only three Tests in the five-Test series in England due to workload management after the back injury scare he experienced in Australia earlier this year.