Jasprit Bumrah opened his claws in Gabba.
Indian team’s fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has been consistently performing well with the ball on the tour of Australia, in which he has taken 5 wickets in the third match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy being played at the Gaba ground. Bumrah has clearly shown dominance with the ball in this series so far. In the Perth Test match, in the absence of Rohit Sharma, Bumrah took the responsibility of captaincy and bowled brilliantly and played an important role in helping Team India win. So far in this series, Bumrah has been the only Indian bowler who has inspired fear among the batsmen of the Australian team.
Bumrah broke Kapil Dev’s record by opening his claws.
While Jasprit Bumrah took 5 wickets in the first innings of the Australian team on the second day of play at the Gabba stadium, he also broke a big record of former Indian captain Kapil Dev. Bumrah has taken 5 wickets in an innings of a Test match for the 8th time in South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia i.e. SENA countries. Earlier this record was in the name of Kapil Dev, who had taken 5 wicket hauls in an innings in SENA countries a total of 7 times during his career in Test cricket. As an Asian bowler, Jasprit Bumrah has equaled Imran Khan, who had also taken 5 wickets in an innings 8 times in SENA countries. Wasim Akram’s name is at number one in this list, who was successful in doing this feat 11 times.
Bowlers who have taken 5 wickets in an innings in Test cricket most number of times for India in SENA countries
Jasprit Bumrah – 8 times
Kapil Dev – 7 times
Zaheer Khan – 6 times
Bhagwat Chandrashekhar – 6 times
Smith and Head also got important wickets
At one time in the Gabba Test match, the Australian team had lost its three wickets till the score of 75, after this, excellent century innings were seen from the bat of Steve Smith and Travis Head in which there was a big partnership of 241 runs between them for the fourth wicket. . After getting the new ball, Bumrah definitely made a slight comeback for Team India in the last session of the day by sending first Smith, then Marsh and then Head to the pavilion.
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