Jasprit Bumrah becomes the best Test cricketer of 2024
ICC Awards,Jasprit Bumrah becomes the best test cricketer of 2024 . Indian team’s star bowler Jaspreet Bumrah has been chosen as the best Test cricketer of 2024. Apart from India’s star fast bowler Jaspreet Bumrah, England’s experienced batsman Joe Root, England’s young batsman Harry Brook and Sri Lanka’s Kamindu Mendis were also nominated for this award, but Bumrah defeated all of them and won the award.
Bumrah impressed in 2024
Bumrah recently completed 200 wickets in Tests. Bumrah has been the best bowler in Test cricket in 2024. He took 71 wickets in 13 matches at an average of 14.92 and a strike rate of 30.16, which is the best performance by any bowler in the traditional format. The ICC considered Bumrah’s match-changing spell in Perth as one of his most memorable performances, thanks to which India won by 295 runs.
Best performance in Australia
In the last calendar year, Bumrah performed his best ever, taking 71 wickets and was the most successful bowler in this format. Whether it was favorable conditions for fast bowlers in South Africa and Australia or difficult conditions for fast bowlers at home, Bumrah performed impressively throughout the year. This fast bowler performed his best during India’s tour of Australia.
After taking 71 wickets, Bumrah became the fourth Indian bowler to take more than 70 Test wickets in a calendar year. In this way, he joined the list of Ravichandran Ashwin, Anil Kumble and Kapil Dev .
Before Bumrah, these Indians have received this award
Before Bumrah, Rahul Dravid (2004), Gautam Gambhir (2009), Virender Sehwag (2010), Ravichandran Ashwin (2016) and Virat Kohli (2018) have also received this award. However, Bumrah is the first fast bowler from India to be selected as the best Test player of the year.
Bumrah was injured during the Australia tour.
Bumrah was suffering from back problem during the fifth test match of Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia. Due to this, he was not selected for the T20 series against England, while he is also out of the first two matches of the ODI series. Apart from this, his playing in the third ODI is also not certain. The experienced bowler has also been selected in the 15-member team for the Champions Trophy, but his playing in this tournament will completely depend on his fitness.
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