Former England fast bowler James Anderson lauded Jasprit Bumrah for nailing his yorkers in the semifinal of the T20 World Cup 2026 semifinal against England at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on Thursday.

England needed 45 runs off the last three overs with Jacob Bethell and Sam Curran at the crease. However, Bumrah was able to execute his yorkers to perfection and conceded only six runs in the 18th over. Anderson said Bumrah was too good with his execution and it was impossible to score big against him.

Bumrah eventually returned with figures of 1-33 in his quota of four overs when 499 runs were scored in the match.

“The thing about Bumrah is, I look at him and think, I don’t think you can learn anything from him. Like, he’s an absolute freak. There’s not one bowler in the world in any format, men or women who can bowl six yorkers out of six and absolutely nail it every time. Even one of the yorkers, he bowled [vs England] in his last over was a slow ball. So he’s nailed five fast yorkers and one slowball yorker, like you can’t hit them anywhere,” Anderson said of Bumrah on BBC.

The former swing master reckons England batters – Jacob Bethell and Sam Curran – did the right thing by seeing off Bumrah.

“England did really well to get six [balls] off the hole, like they squeezed the ball out. They actually played it pretty well because they thought we know that we can’t get boundaries off it or it’s going to be really hard to get boundaries off him.

“So we’ll just take our chances against the other two at the other end. And they saw at the end Dube bowl in the last over went for 22 with Jofra Archer smacking him. I know the game was gone then, but he was trying to bowl a yorker and was missing by a decent amount. So it’s just a ridiculous skill. There’s no one or certainly in T20 cricket, there’s no one better than him,” Anderson explained.

India will take on New Zealand in the final on Sunday.