T20 World Cup 2024: Ian Bishop lavishes praises on Jasprit Bumrah

Jasprit Bumrah (Pic: File Pic)

Legendary West Indies cricketer Ian Bishop lavished praises on lead Indian bowler Jasprit Bumrah saying that he has developed variations and knows better than most bowlers.

So far in the T20 World Cup 2024, Bumrah has bagged five wickets by conceding 45 runs with an economy rate of 5.00.

Speaking on Star Sports Press Room, Bishop said that Bumrah is a great communicator and smart bowler.

"Jasprit is smart, a good communicator who thinks about the game. It starts from the foundation, but he has also developed variations and knows better than most bowlers when to use his variations," Bishop was quoted by ESPNcricinfo as saying.

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Speaking on Jasprit Bumrah's unorthodox bowling action, Bishop said that he has a unique bowling action for which he gets an advantage.

"He has a unique action where the ball gets on to you a lot quicker than batters anticipate, the full toss [that got Iftikhar, for example] is because of that. Sometimes they don't get smashed because they get on to you. Of course, when you develop that reputation... when I bowled with Curtly Ambrose, Matthew [Hayden] never put a foot wrong against Curtly because of his reputation, but he'd look to smash me. This guy is a generational bowler," he added.

Team India needs to win against Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Australia in order to qualify for the semi-final of the T20 World Cup 2024. The side will aim to end their ICC trophy drought since they won the Champions Trophy in 2013. India will also be looking forward to winning their first T20 World Cup since the inaugural edition in 2007.

The "Men in Blue" displayed a stupendous performance in the T20 World Cup 2024 group stage of the marquee event and finished at the top of the Group A table with seven points.

India T20 World Cup 2024 squad: Rohit Sharma (C), Hardik Pandya, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Siraj.

(With ANI Inputs)