Jasprit Bumrah in action (Courtesy: BCCI.TV)

South Africa pace great Dale Steyn has backed ace India seamer Jasprit Bumrah”s workload management. His comments come a day after it was reported that Bumrah is unlikely to travel with the squad for the fourth Test in Ranchi. The South African believes that although the workload is high for the Indian players it is managed quite well by the board.

“I don”t know how his workload is going right now. I suppose being an Indian player there is going to be a lot of workload. There is a lot of cricket in India these days. The Indian team is playing a lot of cricket and people want to play against them. They are traveling most of the time. So, there is a huge percentage of the bowlers who will be bowling a lot of overs. Bumrah could be one of those guys. But he is being managed quite well,” Steyn told TOI.

The Team India squad is likely to depart from Rajkot on Tuesday. He will probably drive from Rajkot to his hometown, Ahmedabad, which is approximately four hours to be with his family. There is, however, no other development on any other player missing out on the fourth Test.

Bumrah has been at the forefront of the Indian bowling. He scalped nine wickets in the Visakhapatnam Test to be adjudged the man-of-the-match. Overall, Bumrah is the highest wicket-taker in the ongoing series and has bowled 80.5 overs in the three Tests so far.

“In the past few years, Indian fast-bowling stocks have gone up hugely. I don”t think we should be worrying too much about Bumrah because he is managing himself quite well.”