Former Australian wicket-keeper batsman Adam Gilchrist tipped Jasprit Bumrah as the best fast bowler of all time. Bumrah has been performing consistently for Mumbai Indians since he has made a comeback after recovering from a back injury.
On Thursday, the gun fast bowler returned with impressive figures of 2-15 in his quota of four overs against Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur. Bumrah accounted for RR stand-in captain Riyan Parag and Shimron Hetmyer on consecutive deliveries.
Gilchrist likened Bumrah’s numbers with legendary Australian batter Sir Donald Bradman and said the ace fast bowler is way ahead of the other bowlers.
Adam Gilchrist said on Cricbuzz, “He’s maybe the best bowler, fast bowler of all time. When you start stacking up the statistics and the varying conditions that he has to go out and execute those skills in, I guess you look at Sir Donald Bradman’s numbers compared to his peers and he’s just so far ahead, so I think Bumrah is sort of in that category across all the different variations that you get in conditions and pitches that you’ve got to bowl on. He’s significantly further ahead than the peers around him, so that tells you we are truly watching greatness.”
On the other hand, Bumrah scalped 32 wickets in five Test matches against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar series at a staggering average of 13.06. Former Indian left-arm orthodox spinner Murali Kartik said Bumrah looked a different bowler and India looked like a different opposition in that series.
“He’s a national treasure, I think at the moment for us a lot, whoever follows cricket and wants India to do well, during the BGT, I think all of us were wishing that he could bowl from both ends.”
“India looked a different side and he looked a different bowler against Australia, he is, look, one of the things which I felt with Bumrah over the period of time is that he acclimatises to any pitch very quickly and I think many bowlers have a certain length that they bowl, but he doesn’t have a certain length, he bowls the length which is required on that surface and that’s his greatness, the oddity of his action, obviously everybody talks about, but coupled with the skills that he has and a great brain, when to use it,” he added.
India suffered a 3-1 loss against Australia in the BGT.
