"Yes, he had a back spasm. He had gone for scans," Prasidh said. "The medical team is monitoring him. So we will know whenever the medical team gets back to us," he said when asked if Bumrah would bowl in the final innings of the series.

Bumrah had spent three of the last five overs of the morning session off the field. He had come back out for the final two overs and resumed the bowling for India after lunch. He began by beating Alex Carey's bat with his first ball but his speeds were down, in the early 120s to early 130s (kph). Bumrah left the field immediately after bowling that over and was not seen until there were visuals on the broadcast of him leaving the SCG in a car. He returned to the ground roughly a couple of hours later, around 4.40pm local time.

"If somebody is in such a great form, you want to try and maximise that form how much ever you can," Rohit had said. "And that is what we've been trying to do with Bumrah.

"But there comes a time where you need to step back a little bit and give him that little bit of extra breather as well. So, we've been very careful.

"I've been very careful. I talk to him about how he feels and stuff like that. So, yeah. Those things should be managed carefully. And I'm trying to do that on the field."

Bumrah had previously spent a year out of the game in 2022, recovering from a stress fracture of the back.

*This story was updated after Prasidh Krishna's press conference.