"jasprit-bumrah"

Bridgetown: After going unbeaten in the Group A matches of the 2024 Men’s T20 World Cup in the USA, despite the pitches in New York being tough for batting, a confident Team India will be eager to kick off its Super Eights campaign in the Caribbean on a high when they take on giant slayers […]

Jasprit Bumrah's tight three-wicket haul and Rishabh Pant's counter-attacking knock powered India to a narrow win at a packed Nassau County Stadium, keeping their World Cup hopes alive with two group stage games remaining.

After fast bowlers Naseem Shah and Haris Rauf both took 3-21 to bowl India out for just 119 in 19 overs, with Rishabh Pant top-scoring with 42 off 31 balls, India clawed their way back thanks to Bumrah's heroic spell, which began with him taking out Mohammad Rizwan.

Looking to make an impact against his former team, Pandya opened the bowling and Wriddhiman Saha (19) slapped a wide ball through the off-side to begin GT's campaign with a boundary.

Shoaib Bashir came to break the deadly-looking partnership, giving some reprise to the England camp by dismissing Sarfaraz for 56.

KL Rahul has been flown to London for an expert opinion as he is still experiencing some discomfort in the quadriceps . Notably, the senior batter underwent a surgery for the same injury last year.

Bumrah has been released as part of his workload management, while senior batter K L Rahul was ruled out of the fourth match beginning in Ranchi on Friday.

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Making him only the fourth Indian to attain number one position after Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Bishan Singh Bedi to top the charts.

Jasprit Bumrah achieved this feat in just 34 games, surpassing the legendary Kapil Dev, who took 39 matches to achieve the same milestone

Jasprit Bumrah bowled a jaffa to rattle the stumps of the first match's hero Ollie Pope who got dismissed for 23 runs in the 28th over of England's first innings of the second test match being played in Visakhapatnam.

England, at tea, stands at 155/4 in 33 overs, trailing India by 241 runs. The session kicked off with Zak Crawley, celebrating his birthday, receiving a reprieve at 18, as Shubman Gill couldn't grasp a chance at short mid-wicket.

At lunch, England stands at 32/0 in six overs, trailing India by 364 runs. Duckett secured his first boundary, an inside edge against Mukesh Kumar, after facing off Jasprit Bumrah's opening over.

After dominating England for the majority of four days, India found themselves on the losing side with a 28-run defeat.

But he was visibly happy after having one of his best days in his 23 Test career.

In the 31st over, Bumrah struck again to dismiss Petersen (2 runs from 7 balls). Dean Elgar and De Zorzi troubled the Indian bowling attack and Bumrah's breakthrough came at a crucial moment in the second session to break the 93-run partnership.

Elgar made batting look easy on a spongy South Africa pitch after the early dismissal of Aiden Markram (5).

In terms of current players, Mohammed Shami scalped the most number of wickets for India against New Zealand in the 50-over format

When prompted to pick between facing Bumrah and Shami in the nets, KL remarked, "Both pose a lethal challenge."

India plays England today in Lucknow in the ICC World Cup 2023. Jasprit Bumrah gives the best opening by picking early wickets for India to defend a low target of 230.