Former India player turned commentator Aakash Chopra has opened up on India’s overdependence on Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami and he believes this is one of the reasons behind a disappointing seven-wicket defeat to England in the rescheduled fifth and final Test at Edgbaston. Chopra has also said that Shami and Bumrah lacked support from the other bowlers in the Edgbaston Test as England registered a comfortable victory.

Chopra further said that India’s bowlers have done well in overseas conditions before but they failed to bowl out England and South Africa in the second innings of the last three Tests as well.

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“378 should have been enough with the bowling attack we had. As I had said, this bowling attack doesn’t come with a ‘conditions apply’ rider. Whether they play in South Africa, Australia, England, or India, they often do well,” Aakash Chopra said in his Youtube video. “But if you see the last three Tests, the two against South Africa and now against England, the run-chases have been completed at a canter. Fourth innings runs are never easy but they did it without much fuss.”

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“One weakness in our bowling attack that has been exposed is that Shami and Bumrah do well, but they don’t quite get the same support from the other two pacers or the spinner Ravindra Jadeja. So it becomes a two-man attack,” Aakash Chopra concluded.