Former England captain Michael Vaughan has warned that Indian speedster Jasprit Bumrah could severely impact Joe Root’s run-scoring when India arrives for the five-match Test series. However, Vaughan’s comments came after Root faced a rare failure at The Oval, with Bumrah also having a good record against him as well.

In his column for The Telegraph, Vaughan wrote, “Jasprit Bumrah enjoys bowling at Root, and could severely limit his output next summer. The same goes for Pat Cummins in Australia, where Root has never scored a hundred. England have to have ways of succeeding when Root doesn’t make big runs. On the basis of this game, they don’t.”

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“This week really hit home to me how important Joe Root is to this batting lineup. His batting is the key. All these flamboyant players around him get flamboyant fifties. But without the glue at No. 4 getting the huge amount of runs he does, they are knackered. He can’t do it every week, and he didn’t do it this week.” he again added.

However, Root finished as the highest run-getter in both the series against the West Indies and Sri Lanka with 291 and 375 runs, respectively as well. Notably, Root broke a lot of records too and also broke Sir Alastair Cook’s record of 33 Test centuries as well.

“He could be a genius, but he’s pretty much published an invitation to bowling attacks around the world to bowl to him in the channel with a packed offside field, and he will chase it. He won’t just wait. Teams will be clocking this, both the analysts and the great bowlers like Bumrah and Cummins. Brook will give himself nowhere to go, because in the Ashes last year he took on every short ball, and now if you hide it outside off stump he will take that on too,” Michael Vaughan concluded.