Jasprit Bumrah is lethal. Jasprit Bumrah is fantastic. Jasprit Bumrah is the toast of the nation. Jasprit Bumrah is Ben Stokes’ dream and nightmare.
Jasprit Bumrah is England’s biggest worry and Jasprit Bumrah is English media’s blue-eyed boy.
Yes, Jasprit Bumrah is all of that and much more.
He is one of those rare cricketers whose statistical and aesthetical brilliance complement each other like the right and left hand. He burst onto the scene as a T20 specialist and sent perceptions for a toss by making the red ball dance to his unusual tunes. Bumrah became the fastest Indian pacer to 150 Test wickets during the second Test against England Visakhapatnam.
On Indian pitches often criticised by the opposition media as bunsen burners, Bumrah has picked 29 wickets in six Tests at an average of 13.06. Ridiculous! And he has all done that while maintaining a steady upward graph in ODIs and T20Is.