Veteran pace bowler Jasprit Bumrah is not suffering from a stress fracture in his back, as he was initially feared and reported by the media, but a “stress reaction,” TOI has reported through reliable sources in the BCCI. This means that his injury isn’t as bad as it looked initially, and the recovery period will be less too. And, it will be interesting to see if India add him in the team. “Scans by the BCCI medical team at the National Cricket Academy (in Bangalore) have revealed that it’s not a stress fracture, but ‘stress reaction’, which is one step less than stress fracture. It takes 4-6 months to recover from a stress fracture, but normally only about 4-6 weeks to recover from a stress reaction,” the source said. “If a squad member is injured between 16th September (initial submissions) and start of the support period (October 15), they can be replaced without going through the Event Technical Committee,” shared a source in the know of things to TOI. However, in a bid to accustomed to the local conditions, Team India will depart from Mumbai to Perth in Australia on the night of October 5, much before the upcoming T20 World Cup. And, for the first time since Covid struck perhaps, they will travel in a ‘normal’ commercial flight, and not a chartered one. “There’s no bio-bubble. So no need to travel in a chartered flight now,” said a source.