Legendary England fast bowler Stuart Broad said he ‘used to hate’ facing Jasprit Bumrah during his playing days because of the unusualness in his bowling action.
Broad who retired after the Ashes against Australia last year, said Bumrah’s deliveries are ‘incredibly hard to pick’ like Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga.
“Facing him isn’t like facing anyone else in the world and I used to hate it. Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga, with his slingy round-arm release, had that point of difference about him and Bumrah has something similar in that his deliveries are incredibly hard to pick up,” Broad wrote in his column for Daily Mail.
Bumrah picked up 9/91 in an unbelievable display of fast bowling on a placid Visakhapatnam surface in the second India vs England Test match. So good was he in both innings of the Test match, that his performance is being hailed as one of the best by any fast bowler in Test matches in India.