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[PICTURES/VIDEOS] Jasprit Bumrah is the best fast-bowler in the world right now

Only the second bowler to achieve 200+ wickets at a sub 20 average. Shaun Pollock was the other one. Averaged 30+ with the bat too. Some family that.

Back to Bumrah, he is the greatest cricketer of the 3 format era. Perhaps the greatest cricketer of the 21st century.

He is Tendulkar's equal. No higher praise.
 
cricketjoshila said:
Just like Wasim Akram, Just like Shane Warne, Just like Glenn McGrath, you sit up and watch Jasprit Bumrah bowl.

A genius. A once in a lifetime player at work.
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I said this in 2017 18 itself. I knew this fella was special. The way he bowled in SA first series was unreal. I have never seen an Asian bowler bowl that well and look so dangerous. He was really fast between 2017 to 2019 as well. Touching 153. Averaging between 138 to 147 consistently.
 
Marshall
Ambrose

McGrath
Lillee

Imran
Wasim

Steyn
Donald

Hadlee

Bumrah


That’s top 10 in my opinion. Cummins would be 11 and Trueman 12. Then rest.
 
Best strike-rate at test wicket number 200th

Waqar Younis - 38.6
Dale Steyn - 39.2
Kagiso Rabada - 40.7
Jasprit Bumrah - 42.4


3 don't have dodgy actions
 
Pakpak said:
Better suited to pace bowling.

Yet those same Indians insult the 2Ws for taking hundreds of wickets on Pakistan's roads.
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Home umpires and bottle caps also played a part. Their away records are relatively poorer.

Bumrah also averages something like 14 in India. Just hasn't played many matches.
 
The second-most wickets in a BGT series by an Indian and the second-most wickets in a Test series by an Indian pacer.

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Pakpak said:
Best strike-rate at test wicket number 200th

Waqar Younis - 38.6
Dale Steyn - 39.2
Kagiso Rabada - 40.7
Jasprit Bumrah - 42.4


3 don't have dodgy actions
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Waqar yonis all a ball temperer who took wickets of tailenders of minnnow nation at that time 7-11 didn’t even have idea of basic batting technique just free wickets his stats should be removed a bang average bowler even ashok dinda if played at his place and in that era using ball tempering he could have got same wicket ir more than that
 
kron said:
If that's in order then I disagree.
Bumrah above wasim and imran. And donald. And lilee.
Ab Fan said:
Marshall
Ambrose

McGrath
Lillee

Imran
Wasim

Steyn
Donald

Hadlee

Bumrah


That’s top 10 in my opinion. Cummins would be 11 and Trueman 12. Then rest.
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Imran dont deserved to be there and marshall mcgrath ,hadlee, bumrah ,steynall are equal and comparable top 5 rest all are 1 tier below them while imran is nothing special
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Any true cricket fan will appreciate and love the way bumrah bowls, the seam position, the impeccable line and length, the subtle changes in pace, the movement off the seam, the movement in air, the bouncers, the yorkers, the traps he set for batsmen. It’s truly a masterclass.

Irrespective of your nationality, if you love cricket you will actually enjoy this once in a generation talent.

The only people who are hating on him are people who don’t care about beauty of cricket but are more interested in hatred in their hearts due to political divide.
 
big_gamer007 said:
Any true cricket fan will appreciate and love the way bumrah bowls, the seam position, the impeccable line and length, the subtle changes in pace, the movement off the seam, the movement in air, the bouncers, the yorkers, the traps he set for batsmen. It’s truly a masterclass.

Irrespective of your nationality, if you love cricket you will actually enjoy this once in a generation talent.

The only people who are hating on him are people who don’t care about beauty of cricket but are more interested in hatred in their hearts due to political divide.
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Post release his bowling is pure artistry.
 
FearlessRoar said:
Jasprit Bumrah has been nominated for the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year 2024!

With 71 wickets in Tests and 15 in T20Is, including leading India to their second T20 World Cup title, Bumrah has delivered across formats this year.

Does he deserve the crown?
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100%
 
FearlessRoar said:
Jasprit Bumrah has been nominated for the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year 2024!

With 71 wickets in Tests and 15 in T20Is, including leading India to their second T20 World Cup title, Bumrah has delivered across formats this year.

Does he deserve the crown?
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Yes. Can't argue with the achievements
 
Bumrah is kryptonite to Aussies, English and Saffers and that’s why he is so special.
 
aboveandbeyond said:
Imran had 370 wickets at 22 . And he was kryptonite to indian teams in the 80's. Total owned them.
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From 1980 to 1989 Imran Khan played 17 tests vs India.

Took 75 wickets @22.90 thats higher than his career avg.

He played 10 tests in Pakistan and avgd 20 with the ball. He played 7 tests in India and avgd 29.81 with the ball.

More like Pakistani Umpires were kryptonite.
 
big_gamer007 said:
Any true cricket fan will appreciate and love the way bumrah bowls, the seam position, the impeccable line and length, the subtle changes in pace, the movement off the seam, the movement in air, the bouncers, the yorkers, the traps he set for batsmen. It’s truly a masterclass.

Irrespective of your nationality, if you love cricket you will actually enjoy this once in a generation talent.

The only people who are hating on him are people who don’t care about beauty of cricket but are more interested in hatred in their hearts due to political divide.
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Goes both ways..
 
Pakpak said:
Best strike-rate at test wicket number 200th

Waqar Younis - 38.6
Dale Steyn - 39.2
Kagiso Rabada - 40.7
Jasprit Bumrah - 42.4


3 don't have dodgy actions
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more importantly only one relied on bottle caps out of those four. No prizes for guessing the correct answer.
 
It's so sad to see he has to burden almost all the load on his shoulders getting very minimal support from his bowling partners.

Bumrah's career is giving me vibes of a time when Tendulkar was the only lone wolf against quality opponents while rest of the clowns in his side for the majority just couldn't give him much support.
 
kron said:
Street sweeper reckons asif
Then waqar
Imran
Wasim then bumrah.

What he says goes. He is very knowledgeable in fast bowling. Full credit to bdesh for producing so many knowledgeable fast bowling fans.
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But am sure in earlier posts , Buffet bro proved comprehensively how skewed sena stats were against waqar and wasim.sweepy may be not good in maths/stats i believe
 
Australia are very lucky in this series, any other indian captain other than Rohit would mauled Aussies , many times he had let the game drift, more damage has been done by him as a captain than as a batsmen. Absolute filthy Captaincy.
 
BouncerGuy said:
Bumrah is surely the best bowler in the world right now. No doubt
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Absolutely no doubt about that. And looks like a humble guy as well.

But if we only stick to Test cricket (the most demanding format for a cricketer) I will still not put him above bowlers like Ambrose, Waqar, Wasim, Anderson, Mcgrath to mention a few. For that he needs to get close 400 wickets and I am sure if he plays close to 90 Test matches he will achieve that, but let's see, he is at his peak now and getting older.

To the indians: This is my personal opinion and that wont change :) There is a reason I don't rate Shoaib Akhtar in Test cricket either, he took less than 200 wickets and didn't last long (although that is understandable with his express pace and he was the most entertaining bowler to watch running in) but longevity matters a lot, that shows the stamina and fitness of player.
 
IAJ said:
Absolutely no doubt about that. And looks like a humble guy as well.

But if we only stick to Test cricket (the most demanding format for a cricketer) I will still not put him above bowlers like Ambrose, Waqar, Wasim, Anderson, Mcgrath to mention a few. For that he needs to get close 400 wickets and I am sure if he plays close to 90 Test matches he will achieve that, but let's see, he is at his peak now and getting older.

To the indians: This is my personal opinion and that wont change :) There is a reason I don't rate Shoaib Akhtar in Test cricket either, he took less than 200 wickets and didn't last long (although that is understandable with his express pace and he was the most entertaining bowler to watch running in) but longevity matters a lot, that shows the stamina and fitness of player.
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Why don Bradman rated best test batsman of all time when he did not even scored 7000 test runs thats too again only 4 test team .

:kp
 
Devadwal said:
Why don Bradman rated best test batsman of all time when he did not even scored 7000 test runs thats too again only 4 test team .

:kp
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99.94 avg followed by 29 centuries in the least amount of test games played.
 
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No one in Test cricket history has reached the 200 wickets milestone with a better average than Bumrah, whose average stands at 19.43, going past former West Indies pacer Joel Garner, who got to the landmark with an average of 20.34.

With this stunning bowling average, Bumrah surpassed the career average of legendary West Indian trio of Malcolm Marshall (376 wickets at 20.94), Garner (259 at 20.97), and Curtley Ambrose (405 at 20.99), making him the sole member of this exclusive group ( 200 wickets) with a sub-20 average.

GOAT is at another level .

:shh :kp
 
IAJ said:
To the indians: This is my personal opinion and that wont change :) There is a reason I don't rate Shoaib Akhtar in Test cricket either, he took less than 200 wickets and didn't last long (although that is understandable with his express pace and he was the most entertaining bowler to watch running in) but longevity matters a lot, that shows the stamina and fitness of player.
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Yeah we know longevity doesn't matter for Pakistanis only when the player is Tendulkar. In that instance longevity is overrated and an easy thing to do for everyone.
 
Devadwal said:
No one in Test cricket history has reached the 200 wickets milestone with a better average than Bumrah, whose average stands at 19.43, going past former West Indies pacer Joel Garner, who got to the landmark with an average of 20.34.

With this stunning bowling average, Bumrah surpassed the career average of legendary West Indian trio of Malcolm Marshall (376 wickets at 20.94), Garner (259 at 20.97), and Curtley Ambrose (405 at 20.99), making him the sole member of this exclusive group ( 200 wickets) with a sub-20 average.

GOAT is at another level .

:shh :kp
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Lol. What matters is his record when he retires. Let's see how many wicket he ends up with and at what average. Time will tell :)

Virat Kohli was averaging 54 after 8 years of Test cricket and now it has dropped to 47. Just to explain you how things can change.
 
Romali_rotti said:
Yeah we know longevity doesn't matter for Pakistanis only when the player is Tendulkar. In that instance longevity is overrated and an easy thing to do for everyone.
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I have nothing, but respect for Sachins cricket career. To play 200 Test matches and 460+ ODIs is just another level. And his record is excellent as well, so yes longevity matters in this case as well.
 
IAJ said:
Virat Kohli was averaging 54 after 8 years of Test cricket and now it has dropped to 47. Just to explain you how things can change.
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Yes correct, this is exactly why players like Sangakkara and other great batsmen cannot be compared to the king, aka the one only SRT.

😇
 
IAJ said:
I have nothing, but respect for Sachins cricket career. To play 200 Test matches and 460+ ODIs is just another level. And his record is excellent as well, so yes longevity matters in this case as well.
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Good to know we have Pakistanis on here that actually know what they are talking about.


😁
 
Romali_rotti said:
Yeah we know longevity doesn't matter for Pakistanis only when the player is Tendulkar. In that instance longevity is overrated and an easy thing to do for everyone.
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That’s a mic drop statement. :))

Pakistani posters and their opinions,

On SRT :- He is a nothing batsman outside his longevity. All he had done his life is just play and play.

On Bumrah :- No matter whatever Bumrah does but I cannot rate him until he picks 400 wickets because the longevity is what matters.

:lol :inti
 
Devadwal said:
No one in Test cricket history has reached the 200 wickets milestone with a better average than Bumrah, whose average stands at 19.43, going past former West Indies pacer Joel Garner, who got to the landmark with an average of 20.34.

With this stunning bowling average, Bumrah surpassed the career average of legendary West Indian trio of Malcolm Marshall (376 wickets at 20.94), Garner (259 at 20.97), and Curtley Ambrose (405 at 20.99), making him the sole member of this exclusive group ( 200 wickets) with a sub-20 average.

GOAT is at another level .

:shh :kp
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India doesn't deserve a bowler of Bumrah's calibur. It's so pathetic to watch its only Bumrah vs the entire opposition so many times.
 
Ab Fan said:
That’s a mic drop statement. :))

Pakistani posters and their opinions,

On SRT :- He is a nothing batsman outside his longevity. All he had done his life is just play and play.

On Bumrah :- No matter whatever Bumrah does but I cannot rate him until he picks 400 wickets because the longevity is what matters.

:lol :inti
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If you had you read post no. 2307, you wouldn't need to type this as it has already backfired lol. The guy who mentioned 400 wickets for Bumrah also appreciated SRT longevity.
 
Ab Fan said:
That’s a mic drop statement. :))

Pakistani posters and their opinions,

On SRT :- He is a nothing batsman outside his longevity. All he had done his life is just play and play.

On Bumrah :- No matter whatever Bumrah does but I cannot rate him until he picks 400 wickets because the longevity is what matters.

:lol :inti
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For srt, idk about other pakistani posters but I acknowledge him as the top 5 best test and top 5 best odi batters of all time.

It's just people keep having my head because I rate bradman and prime steve smith > Sachin lol. They can't handle that i have put Sachin at no 3 or no 2 rather then no 1 lol.

As for Bumrah same thing, they can't handle the fact that I have placed certain bowlers like wasim, Marshall, Mcgrath > Him.

What's the obsession with wanting to turn both of them as no 1?

Bumrah is not > Mcgrath due to 2 reasons.

A) Poor NZ record.

B) Choking mentality specifically ct 2017, wc 2023 and wc 2019 where it would have been in India's best interest to eliminate England as they were the strongest team. Bringing pk into the semi's is more beneficial as 2019 india would have had zero issues in dispatching them.

Similarly Sachin is not >> Bradman and Prime steve smith for 1 reason

A) he was never heads and shoulders > Any test batter in his era, Someone always outscored him or out averaged him, he was only more consistent and remained in top 5 and eventually outlasted while these 2 dominated in all metrics.

However unlike bradman, Smith fizzled out sadly so his current cannot compare and he's out of the race.

Bradman is very much ahead in the race however.
 
Devadwal said:
@IAJ why ignore this because it's doesn't suits on your agenda against Bumrah?
:kp
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Firstly I have no agenda against Bumrah. You can search for my posts on him here at PP. As I have said before, I see and I commentate, those are my takes.

And Bradman played only 52 matches but he still made close to 7000 runs with 29 centuries. Had he played more matches he could have easily made 10.000+ runs and still have a high average. The next guy after him averages around 60 (played at least 20 matches), so you see the difference in class clearly. He was a clear exemption. But you can not say that about Bumrah. Yes, Bumrah has probably the best record after 200 wickets, but let's talk when he finishes his career. If he takes 400 wickets and still averages around 20 I would call him one of the very greatest of all time in Test cricket :) I have not issues against that. But at the the moment, he is not there in my opinion. You can call him The GOAT, that would be your take.
 
IAJ said:
Firstly I have no agenda against Bumrah. You can search for my posts on him here at PP. As I have said before, I see and I commentate, those are my takes.

And Bradman played only 52 matches but he still made close to 7000 runs with 29 centuries. Had he played more matches he could have easily made 10.000+ runs and still have a high average. The next guy after him averages around 60 (played at least 20 matches), so you see the difference in class clearly. He was a clear exemption. But you can not say that about Bumrah. Yes, Bumrah has probably the best record after 200 wickets, but let's talk when he finishes his career. If he takes 400 wickets and still averages around 20 I would call him one of the very greatest of all time in Test cricket :) I have not issues against that. But at the the moment, he is not there in my opinion. You can call him The GOAT, that would be your take.
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Ok so my next question if Bumrah can retire from test cricket now than how you rate him.

He has already achieved ( 200@19.43) what had don Bradman achieved ( 7000 runs@99)

:kp
 
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