Jasprit bumrah creates new history after 22 years!

indian star fast bowler jasprit bumrah has created the record of becoming the first bowler to take 50 wickets in Test cricket this year. With this, he has become the first indian fast bowler to take 50 wickets in a single year in Test cricket after 22 years. The indian team is playing in the 2nd Test match against Australia. In this match, the indian team, which won the toss and batted first, was all out for only 180 runs. Mitchell Starc was amazing for the Australian team by taking 6 wickets. Even though they batted first at the adelaide stadium, the indian batsmen have shown a poor performance. This made the indian team look like they were in trouble. After this, the Australian team's Usman Khawaja - McSweeney partnership gave the start. bumrah and Siraj kept attacking from the indian team. Even after 10 overs, the indian team was unable to take the first wicket.
Then bumrah came to bowl the 11th over. Usman Khawaja was dismissed for 13 runs on the last ball of that over. Through this, bumrah has created a record of taking 50 wickets in international Test cricket in a single year. He also became the first player to take 50 wickets this year. Similarly, bumrah has created a new history of being the indian fast bowler to take 50 wickets in Test cricket in a single year after 22 years. Before this, kapil dev had taken 74 wickets in 1979 and 75 wickets in 1983. After that, zaheer khan took 51 wickets in 2002.
After that, only bumrah has achieved this feat in the last 22 years. Apart from that, indian bowlers have taken more than 50 wickets in a single year 17 times. In these 17 ways, Bumrah's bowling average of 15.14 is one of the best. Due to this, fans are praising Bumrah.
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Sowmiya Sriram

06/12/2024 05:18 PM