Jasprit Bumrah, spearhead of the Indian pace attack, took another step towards greatness when he became the sixth Indian fast bowler to take 400 International wickets.
It was on Friday that Bumrah achieved a milestone when he clean bowled Bangladesh pacer Hasan Mahmud at the stroke of Tea on Day 2 of the first Test at MA Chidambaram stadium at Chennai.
During the first Test of the series, India’s Bumrah took a Mahmud wicket when Kohli caught the ball at second slip.
Jasprit Bumrah is one of the most successful fast bowlers in the Indian squad who has got an unusual bowling style and is fast and cool-headed in all formats of the game. Even after being in the team for the last six years, he proved his worth in India’s cricket.
Bumrah’s ability to execute yammering yorkers at the death overs instant boost in the limited overs cricket has been something India was after for a long time. His accuracy in the use of the new ball and effectiveness at the death overs were of use to India during ODIs and T20s.
Jasprit Bumrah also now is the fastest Indian bowler to get to the milestone of 100 wickets in one day international and also the fastest Indian for fifty wickets in Twenty 20 cricket.
With a new ball, a fresh Bumrah has become proficient at nibbled off break through damp spells of the fractured bat. Warm bleeding the average figures of Indian pace bowlers in the test format.
Combination of Bumrah’s pace and Kit’s bone-out ability makes him a dangerous bowler on any surface.
Head to domestic and shorter forms experiment at mud and dynamic length to compensate for disappointing long strings. Without the potential weight problems to Sidrolopede squat one Carbentz, Bumrah, across all depending formats, will be a spearhead of the bowling regime.
Pace bowlers taking 400 wickets in international cricket and a surprising name came before Bumrah are:
- Kapil Dev: 687 wickets
- Zaheer Khan: 597 wickets
- Javagal Srinath: 551 wickets
- Mohammed Shami: 448 wickets
- Ishant Sharma: 434 wickets
