Jasprit Bumrah
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Career
2018
Records during the Australia tour
From: December 29, 2018: The Times of India
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Bumrah’s records at Perth
Bumrah’s six scalps
December 29, 2018: The Times of India
1 M Harris caught Ishant 22
Harris tries to pull a short one but is cramped for space and the ball goes up in the air to Ishant Sharma at long leg.
2 S Marsh leg before 19
Bumrah sets up Marsh nicely with deliveries outside off at around 140kmph. The final ball was straight, full and bowled a lot slower — at a speed of 111kmph. Marsh falls for the trap, misses the line and is plumb leg before.
3 T Head bowled 20
Head completely misses Bumrah’s yorker length ball from round the wicket.
4 T Paine caught Pant 22
Paine pokes at a straight delivery and gives a thick edge to Rishabh Pant, who dives to his right to take the low catch.
5 N Lyon leg before 0
Lyon misses the line of a straight, full delivery from over the wicket and is adjudged lbw.
6 J Hazlewood bowled 0
Bumrah goes round the wicket for the lefthanded batsman and a 140+kmph delivery takes Hazlewood’s edge and hits the pads before crashing on to the stumps.
2019: 3rd Indian bowler to take Test hat-trick
Vivek.Krishnan, Sep 2, 2019: The Times of India
Jasprit Bumrah is in a different league at the moment.
After blowing away the West Indies in the first Test in Antigua last week with a return of 5 for 7 in the second innings, Bumrah went a step further in Jamaica on Saturday when he became only the third Indian bowler to take a Test hat-trick.
If it were predominantly outswingers (to the righthand batsmen) that got him his wickets last week, it was his inswingers that caused havoc on Saturday. Given his open-chested action and the mechanics of swing bowling, the inswinger is the delivery that comes naturally to him and Bumrah used it to devastating effect to register his fifth five-wicket haul in Test cricket.
Having dismissed both Joel Campbell and Darren Bravo with sharp inswingers last week, he took the ball away from them on Saturday and successfully found the edge of the West Indian left-handers. He decided to operate with the inswinger against the righthanded duo of Shamarh Brooks and Roston Chase, trapping them plumb in front off successive deliveries. And just to show that he can unleash the outswinger whenever he so wishes, Bumrah had the stodgy Kraigg Brathwaite caught behind for his fifth wicket. In case one had forgotten, it was only around this time last year that Bumrah had developed the confidence to start using the away-going delivery at the highest level.
Talking about his game plan after the second day’s play on a Sabina Park surface with a lot of assistance for the pacers, it was revealing how simple Bumrah’s approach to bowling is.
“Sometimes when there is so much of help in the wicket, you can get greedy and look for wickets. You can try to be over aggressive. But at that time, you have to just try and bowl good balls and create pressure. That was the thing that was going on in my head,” Bumrah revealed in a chat with skipper Virat Kohli on bcci.tv. Bumrah is perhaps too modest to brag about his own craft. But Irfan Pathan, who knows what it feels to take a Test hat-trick, succinctly explains the difficulty of what the 25-year-old is doing at the present moment.
“For any bowler to swing the ball both ways, is the most difficult thing to do because everyone has an action that gives them one swing. To be able to swing the ball both ways, you need to have a really good sense of your action and great control over it. Bumrah has that right now. That is why he is consistently swinging the ball both ways,” Irfan, the second Indian to take a Test hattrick after Harbhajan Singh in 2001, told TOI on Sunday.
While the wrist position of a bowler is considered paramount when it comes to swing bowling, Irfan said that it is Bumrah’s balance at the point of delivery that is enabling him to do what he wants.
“A lot of people talk about the wrist position. But if you don’t have control over your action, you won’t be able to control your wrists. The wrist is the end result. He is so balanced at the point of delivery that he is able to manoeuvre his wrists very easily,” the former left-arm swing bowler added. Just as impressively perhaps, Bumrah doesn’t seem to have a hint of arrogance about his dominance or importance to the team. For the wicket of Roston Chase that gave him his hat-trick for instance, it was him who had to be convinced by Kohli that they should go for the review rather than the other way round.
“Actually I didn’t know. I was not very sure of the appeal. I thought it was bat so I didn’t appeal so much, but it was a good review in the end. So, I think, I owe that hat-trick to the captain,” said Bumrah with a gentle smile.
2019, WC: yorker specialist
July 4, 2019: Deccsn Chronicle
India’s pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah’s ability to bowl yorkers at will has been a key factor in his team’s progress to the Cricket World Cup semi-finals and the right-arm pacer attributes it to the long hours he spent honing the skill.
Bumrah sealed India’s 28-run victory against Bangladesh on Tuesday with two trademark yorkers to claim the last two wickets in successive deliveries and finish with figures of 4-55.
The right-arm quick’s accuracy and death-overs mastery make him a limited-overs asset and the 25-year-old attributed his skill to his work in the nets.
“Whenever I practise in the nets, I practise each and every situation - be it with the new ball, be it with the old ball, or death bowling at the death,” the bowler with an unusual action told reporters. “I tick all the boxes in the nets. In the match, it’s all about execution and keeping a clear head.
“All of that preparation helps me in the matches. If the work ethic is good, then execution becomes much easier.”
Bumrah has used the yorker delivery to good effect in the tournament to claim 14 wickets from seven matches with an impressive economy rate of 4.6.
His unique release point and accuracy render him nearly unplayable at times and difficult to score off otherwise. Bumrah, who likes to simulate match situations in the nets, said he did not consider himself a master of the delivery.
“I do it again and again and again in the nets. The more you do it, you get decent at it.
“You can’t master it but you still try to get better at it. It’s all about repetition. It’s like the length ball - you have to do it again and again (in the nets) and try and replicate it in the game.”
Another aspect of his bowling is to control his aggression according to the requirement of the team, he said. “I try to keep things simple. Reading and analysing the wicket as soon as possible is important. Sometimes you run after wickets, but I focus on team goals — what the team wants me to do right now.
“Not chasing success, I want to focus on my process. If I do that, eventually everything gets sorted out.”
Qualifying for the semi-finals with a match to spare affords India the luxury of resting their strike bowler for Saturday’s group clash with Sri Lanka but Bumrah does not want to put his feet up.
“This is my first World Cup so I’d like to play as many games as possible... The more matches you play, the more you enjoy.” …
1st test: How Bumrah dismantled Windies batting
August 27, 2019: The Times of India
How Jasprit Bumrah dismantled Windies batting with late away movement
Jasprit Bumrah is all about breaking stereotypes. The trot towards the bowling crease, the flaying limbs and the open-chested thrust behind his delivery - how Bumrah makes everything work for himself consistently at the highest level is esoteric even for the best experts.
From a death-overs specialist with the white ball to a lethal new-ball bowler in Test cricket, Bumrah's rapid evolution was there in Antigua against West Indies for everyone to see - in a part of the world that was once the breeding ground for the best in the fast-bowling business.
Just when the video analysts around the world started figuring out his sharp in-dippers, he unveiled the late outswingers in Antigua. You will be tempted to call his 5/7 against West Indies on Sunday an 'unlike Bumrah' spell. Each of his wicket-taking delivery got away from the right-hander and came in to the lefties. In essence, he announced to the world that he has a new sharp weapon and he can wield efficiently enough.
"I used to bowl the in-swinger earlier, but the more Test matches I played, the more confident I got for bowling the outswinger, especially since England. A lot of hard work goes into my delivery. I am always trying to evolve," Bumrah said after the match.
Ashish Nehra was at hand to watch Bumrah's deadly spell in Antigua on Sunday, being part of the TV commentary team. The pleasure to see a bloke who turned up as a rookie to share the new ball with him during the World T20 in 2016 was evident.
"Bumrah had the ability to swing it away a bit even in 2016 when he first came in. He is humble and tries to develop new things every day. On Sunday, he gauged the conditions very well with the wind blowing across from right to left. He used that brilliantly," Nehra told TOI. Nehra also praised Bumrah's pace partners Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami. "All these guys have worked on their fitness and it's showing. Ishant took time to develop as a pacer but now that he has learnt the art, he is doing the right things consistently."
Bumrah, along with Jofra Archer, is at the centre of fearsome fast bowling revolution around the world. The respective team managements literally rushed both of them on to the international stage based on their ability to be nasty to face. And now they are adding skills to work you out as Bumrah has put out on display. One probably saw the glimpse of Bumrah's ability to swing it in to the left-hander in England last year, when Keaton Jennings copped one in front of the stumps while shouldering arms. Bumrah is now the only Asian bowler to have five-wicket hauls in South Africa, England, Australia and West Indies. That's testimony to his rapid evolution. That's something for Archer to match.
Bumrah's emergence has literally catalyzed the fast-bowling revolution in India. Since Virat Kohli assumed charge as full-time Test captain in December 2014, he laid emphasis on raw pace through Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma and even Varun Aaron. Bhuvneshwar Kumar too pushed himself to bowl consistently over 135 kmph.
Now that the pack is more or less ready, it helps Bumrah operate at his best. "I am feeling very good. As a bowling unit, we came with attacking options. Me and Ishant (Sharma) were trying to use the (width of) crease too, to generate the swing," Bumrah said.
The fast bowling riches is just the bounty Kohli had wished for. Now, it's about preserving it and hence managing the workload of pacers becomes an important area. "Bumrah's workload is most important which is why he didn't play any white-ball games after the World Cup. He will be a key factor for us as long as the World Test Championship continues. It's the same with Shami and Ishant is always reliable. Umesh is there too and Navdeep (Saini) is waiting in the wings. We are settled with our bowling options, but managing workloads will be important," Kohli laid out his plan.
Nehra, however, was not too concerned about the workload factor. "India don't need to worry about their workload. A bowler gets only better if he keeps bowling. It should be left to the concerned bowlers. When India are playing at home, they won't need all three pacers. They can then rotate the pacers," Nehra reckoned.
2024
From: Dwaipayan Datta, February 8, 2024: The Times of India
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Jasprit Bumrah, records in Tests, as on February 8, 2024
