Bumrah channelised his anger in the right way: Zaheer Khan

Zaheer Khan

Former India pacer Zaheer Khan lavished praise on seamer Jasprit Bumrah for his all-round show in India's win over England in the Lord's Test. Zaheer also believes the heated exchange with James Anderson acted as a motivation for Bumrah in the match.

"If by getting angry, he can carry himself and perform like this, I believe he should at times, needle the opposition. See, in the first innings, he had gone wicketless and being the class bowler that he is, I'm sure it must have bothered him," Zaheer was quoted as saying by Cricbuzz.

"After that, the whole Anderson episode that unfolded, the bouncers he bowled to him and then while batting, the manner in which the England pacer went after him, all those things motivated him, and he channelised that anger in the right way. England must be thinking ‘we should have let Bumrah bowl bouncers and not messed with him'. The intensity with which he bowled, is praiseworthy."

The Bumrah-Anderson argument in the Lord's Test happened on Day Three when India pacers looked to bowl out the England batting lineup in their first innings. Bumrah bowled a 10-ball over to Anderson in which he overstepped the line four times.

Apart from bowling no balls, Bumrah also bowled a few short-pitched deliveries to the Lancashire cricketer, who somehow managed to save his wicket. However, Mohammad Shami clean bowled Anderson on the last ball of Day Three and when the players were walking back to the dressing room, everyone witnessed Anderson having a war of words with Bumrah, as the latter kept smiling back at him.

Bumrah first scored 34 vital runs in an unbeaten 89-run partnership with Shami and then registered figures of 3-33 that included the crucial wicket of Root after tea for just 33.

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