Jasprit Bumrah

About Jasprit Bumrah

Jasprit Bumrah is an international cricketer from India, listed as a bowler. Career years: 2016 - 2026. Batting style: right-hand bat. Bowling style: right-arm fast. Date of birth: 1993-12-6. Career highlights — ODI: 91 runs at avg 7.58; T20I: 12 runs at avg 2. Explore complete career numbers, debut matches and match-by-match form below.

Jasprit Bumrah biography

Jasprit Bumrah player profile

Arguably the most skilful fast bowler India have produced, Jasprit Bumrah has been central to their rise as a Test match power in the late 2010s and onward. All pistoning arms and legs in his unorthodox action and late release, he makes the ball do tricks few people not named Wasim Akram have.

Bumrah was a yorker specialist early in his career, like his Mumbai Indians team-mate Lasith Malinga, and he learnt much about the art of hitting the blockhole from Malinga. But he developed to be so much more, adept at bowling swing both conventional and reverse, and able to produce deceptive speed, cut and dip almost at will. Within seven years of his debut he became the first in Test history to take 200 Test wickets at an average of under 20.

Bumrah played his first international on the white-ball tour of Australia early in 2016, off the back of a domestic season in which he excelled for Gujarat in the Ranji Trophy and topped the bowling charts in the Vijay Hazare tournament. He was the highest wicket-taker in the T20I leg of that Australia tour, which India won 3-0.

His Test debut came two years on in South Africa, and he took a five-for in his third match, in Johannesburg, helping India pull it back to 2-1 in the series. Another 14 wickets followed on the tour of England in the summer of 2018. In Melbourne at the end of the year, he hit a spectacular gear, scuppering Australia with 6 for 33 and 3 for 53 in a performance that turned out to be instrumental in India winning their first ever Test series there.

From the middle of 2017 through to late October 2018, he took a round 50 ODI wickets in seven consecutive series that India won, including the Asia Cup in Dubai.

Bumrah also feasted during the 2-0 rout of West Indies away in 2019, taking 13 wickets at the absurd average of 9.23. Come the Melbourne Test of 2020, he took six in another win, though he was absent hurt for the landmark Brisbane win that gave India the series. His next time at the MCG, in 2024, he nearly dragged India to a win with the force of his talent and will, taking nine. Bumrah in that series seemed to operate on a different plane from the other bowlers, taking 32 wickets at 13.06 and breaking down injured in the Sydney Test, were it not for which, India might have kept their decade-long unbeaten streak intact. That year was an annus mirabilis - he was the MVP in India's T20 World Cup-winning campaign, took nine wickets in the Visakhapatnam Test win against England (and 19 in the four Tests of that series overall).

That Bumrah's skills translate to all formats has been borne out by his terrific T20 record. Long a Mumbai Indians mainstay, he has won five titles with them, taking 66 wickets in their three title-winning seasons in 2017, 2019 and 2020.