Jasprit Bumrah

Jasprit Bumrah

Personal information
Full name	Jasprit Jasbir Singh Bumrah
Born	(1993-12-06) 6 December 1993 Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Height	178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm Fast-medium
Role	Bowler
International information
National side	India
Test debut (cap 290)	5 January 2018 v South Africa
Last Test	24 January 2018 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 210)	23 January 2016 v Australia
Last ODI	16 February 2018 v South Africa
ODI shirt no.	93
T20I debut (cap 57)	26 January 2016 v Australia
Last T20I	27 June 2018 v Ireland
T20I shirt no.	93
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2012–present	Gujarat
2013–present	Mumbai Indians (squad no. 93)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC Matches 3 37 35 29 Runs scored 4 11 8 124 Batting average 1.00 3.66 4.00 9.53 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 Top score 2 10* 7 16* Balls bowled 673 1859 757 5687 Wickets 14 64 43 103 Bowling average 25.21 22.50 19.93 25.32 5 wickets in innings 1 1 0 7 10 wickets in match 0 n/a n/a 0 Best bowling 5/54 5/27 3/11 6/29 Catches/stumpings 2/0 12/– 4/– 11/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 11th July 2018

Jasprit Jasbir Singh Bumrah (born 6 December 1993) is an Indian cricketer who plays as a right-arm fast bowler for the Indian national cricket team in three formats of the game. He holds the record for maximum wickets (28) in Twenty20 International in a calendar year.

After a couple of moderately successful seasons with the Mumbai Indians at the Indian Premier League, and with his domestic team Gujarat, he was named in India's squad for its 2015–16 series against Australia, as a replacement to an injured Bhuvneshwar Kumar. He consequently made his debut in One Day Internationals & Twenty20 Internationals in 2015–16 series against Australia.

Early and personal life

Bumrah was born in December 1993 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat in Sikh Ramgarhia Family. At the age of 7, he lost his father Jasbir Singh. It was Bumrah’s mother Daljit, a school principal, who single-handedly raised her children. Bumrah's father Jasbir Singh was an industrialist.

Domestic cricket

He started his bowling career by playing for the Gujarat under-19 team. He made his Indian Premier League debut with the Mumbai Indians in 2013. He showed some promise in his bowling with some pace and swing, he has impressed many in the IPL with his bowling figures, in his debut match of IPL 2013 he took 3 wickets for 32 runs against the Royal Challengers Banglore .

He grabbed eyeballs with his slingy action that has troubled many batsmen. Because of his variety in delivering the ball, Bumrah was handed an IPL contract by Mumbai Indians in 2013 even before he made his first-class debut .

Bumrah plays first-class cricket for Gujarat and he made his debut against Vidarbha cricket team during the 2013–14 season. He had a great game indeed, picking up 7 wickets in the match. Eventually, he ended the tournament as the side's leading wicket-taker.

Though he played just a couple of games in IPL-6, his impressive show in the domestic circuit convinced the Mumbai Indians management to buy him back for IPL-7 .

A 19-year old, Bumrah grabbed instant limelight when on the Indian Premier League debut; he finished with figures of 3–32 against the Bangalore franchise . While doing so, he became only the second bowler in the side to pick three wickets on debut. The teenager was signed by the Mumbai for the sixth season of the Indian Premier League in 2013, with just 10 first-class matches in his bag.

A right-arm medium pacer from Gujarat with an unusual bowling action, Bumrah made his T20 debut against Maharashtra in the 2012–13 Mohit Kumar Trophy, and also helped his side clinch the title with his Man of the Match performance. His figures of 3/14 were instrumental to Gujarat’s win over Punjab in the final.

The youngster was quickly offered a lucrative Indian Premier League contract, and Mumbai used him as a secret weapon in their very first game of the tournament. The subsequent year, he was again bought by Mumbai for a whopping 1.2 crores for the 2014 edition of the Indian T20 League.

International career

Bumrah made his T20I debut on 27 January 2016 against Australia. He reached into the limelight due to his ability to bowl yorkers at the right time and perform well in the death. Bumrah has a slightly unorthodox action thus making it more difficult for batsmen to pick him up soon. Bumrah is a different bowler in pitches that assist fast bowling. The youngster bowls outside the off-stump or short quite consistently.

In The two matches T-20 series against West Indies in August 2016, He became the bowler to claim most wickets (28) in Twenty20 Internationals in one calendar year surpassing the record of Dirk Nannes.

In January 2017, in the second match of T20I series of England's 2016–17 India tour, Bumrah played a crucial role in India's win. He picked up two wickets and gave away 20 runs in his quota of four overs. Bowling at the death, in the final over, he took 2 wickets giving away only two runs when England needed eight to win. He was awarded Player of the Match. He produced an excellent yorker in the final ball, with 6 runs required During the 2017 Sri Lanka tour, Bumrah recorded the most wickets (15) taken by any fast bowler in a bilateral ODI series of five or fewer matches.

In November 2017, he was named in India's Test squad for their series against South Africa. He made his Test debut for India against South Africa at Newlands in Cape Town on 5 January 2018. Jasprit Bumrah got his maiden Test wicket as he clean bowled AB de Villiers for 65 runs. He is the 290th Test player for India.

External links

• Jasprit Bumrah – Cricinfo profile
• Jasprit Bumrah's profile page on Wisden
• Jasprit Bumrah – CricketArchive profile