da realbet： India’s spearhead credits a fast bowling group always willing to help each other out for team’s success
da fezbet： Aishwarya Kumar at Sabina Park02-Sep-20191:49
Kohli’s confidence in me gives me self-belief – Bumrah
A back of a length ball darting into the batsman’s chest. A mean bouncer that sends the neck guard of the batsman’s helmet flying. A rapid delivery nearly brushing the outside half of the off stump.The secret behind Bumrah’s swing
Inswingers, outswingers, bouncers – they have all come naturally to Jasprit Bumrah on his way to decimating the West Indies batting-line up. When asked about this uncanny ability of his, the fast bowler pointed to the advantage of bowling with the Duke ball.
“I played a lot of cricket in England, we played a lot of Test matches, we bowled with the Duke ball. There is a lot of movement with the Duke ball, you get a lot of confidence in outswing, inswing, whatever you’re trying. So, that experience helped me out.”
When asked about setting himself targets for every day, Bumrah said he never approached his bowling that way. The team always came first, he said.
“If we win the match I am fine if I don’t get wickets as well. My aim is – how can I contribute towards the team’s success, be it taking wickets, creating pressure, however I can contribute, that is the way I go forward.”
Day three saw Jasprit Bumrah bowl from both ends – and mix it up. He didn’t pick up a wicket, but everything he did looked calculated, pre-planned, well thought out.After day two, during an interview with Virat Kohli, Bumrah had said that there had been a lot of communication between the India bowlers.”Ishant [Sharma] has played a lot more cricket than all of us, [Mohammed] Shami has played a lot of cricket, I am the new guy, so I try and ask questions,” Bumrah said on Sunday. “I ask them, they’ve played here before, so ‘what works in different conditions?’ ‘If the wicket is not doing anything what should we do?’ ‘What different plans are to be there?’ So all these different communication goes on including the captain and the vice-captain, everybody discusses, everybody has their own plans, so all of these things are going on when you play.”Though he has run through the West Indies line-up twice in this series, Bumrah predicted tougher times ahead.ESPNcricinfo Ltd
“Now the wicket has gotten a little better. So movement has gotten less than the previous innings. We have to bowl well, create pressure from all ends, so that will help us to be in [a good position],” he said.That India have dominated this game is in no small part due to Bumrah’s hair-raising form. He took 6 for 16 in the first innings, including a hat-trick, which was a testament to his ability to assess conditions quickly.”So in bouncy wickets, you can be greedy and you look to bowl short but you should not do that – you should bowl in good areas, create pressure and try and bowl full, so that was the plan going into the first innings. We were just trying to assess the situation as soon as possible and try and bowl accordingly,” he explained.”First innings, I changed my end because the breeze was going from this end to that end and we wanted to use the inswinger and see how it goes. We tried to do that and it worked. We pitched the ball up.”ESPNcricinfo Ltd
At one point during the over in which Bumrah got his hat-trick, the stump mic picked up Kohli reacting to one of his deliveries with, ‘What a bowler, man! What a bowler.’ “The captain gives you a lot of confidence,” Bumrah said. “That gives you a lot of self-belief. When you bowl, you can express yourself, you can try whatever you want to do. That gives you a lot of confidence, not only me, but each and every bowler is being backed by him so much. As a bowling unit we are very happy and then we have the freedom to do what we want.”Looking ahead, he said the Indian bowling unit is in sync and working very well together – something he hopes will help them improve and bring more success as a team.”We have done a lot of hard work and last year we played a lot of away matches, so lot of camaraderie is there, a lot of backing is there, we back each other whenever things are not going well – even if things are going well we discuss what can we do better, so that was the plan going forward. We got a good relationship all of us, we want to get better every year. It’s a good relationship and we are working hard and hopefully these processes will bring more results.”
