His death over bowling has been a major factor in India's recent success, with India's semi-final win over England being another example of this.
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Jasprit Bumrah will be a key player as India try to win the World Twenty20 for the third time on Sunday, thanks to his ability to bowl yorkers at will. The cricket-mad Indian fans will also have faith in Bumrah.
His death over bowling has been a major factor in India's recent success. India's semi-final win over England was another example of this. Chasing a record-breaking target of 254, Jacob Bethell was hitting sixes. At one point, England needed 45 runs off 18 balls to win.
At that moment, India's captain Suryakumar Yadav handed over the bowling to Bumrah. It was the 18th over of the match, and his last over. In the process, the right-handed bowler bowled three accurate yorkers, and two full toss balls. Along with one full ball. In that over, Bethal and Sam Curran could only add six runs. This was ultimately the deciding factor in the game and England lost by seven runs. Bethal's century also did not work.
Former Pakistan captain Faf de Flessis has openly praised Bumrah and said about the 32-year-old bowler, 'India is very lucky to have a bowler like Bumrah. No matter what the format of the game, it has been proven many times, the ball should be given to Bumrah, the victory goes to his team. This is an infallible weapon for any captain.' Sanju Samson, who scored 89 runs in the same match, also believes that Bumrah is a rare player to be seen in a generation.
His bowling style of 'front of slingshot action' is not particularly traditional. Through that, he took one wicket for just 33 runs in the second semi-final of this World Cup. That too, he bowled a full four overs. Again, his performance was possible in the match played at Wankhede, in which the combined score of both teams was 499 runs.
English captain Brendon McCullum has also said, ‘Bumrah is the best bowler in world cricket right now, the game is won or lost because of his precise performance.’ Similarly, former Indian player Sanjay Manjrekar wrote on social media, ‘There are many ways to talk about that semi-final. But there is only one player who made the difference between the two teams and that is the great Jasprit Bumrah.’ He also has the nickname, ‘Boom Boom’.
He has taken 117 wickets in 94 Twenty20 internationals for India. He made his debut for India in 2016. Now for the final, he will return to the city of his birth in Ahmedabad. Due to his different bowling style, the place to practice bowling was very narrow. In fact, it was the parking lot in front of his apartment.
Bumrah returned to the team only last year after recovering from a life-threatening back injury. He had a similar problem in 2022. He was also a key player when India won the T20 World Cup in 2024. Because of him, South Africa could not score 30 runs in the last 30 balls of the final. The then captain Rohit Sharma called that performance, 'unique'.
