Gareth Williams from Redhill, England, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
You didn’t need to see the 1st game in the current ODI series between England and India to to agree with me, but it does add considerable weight to my Jasprit Bumrah argument. I would also like to not the singular language in this title. I’m not suggesting he is one of the shits, but rather THE shit. You name me a better, more exciting and consistently wicket taking bowler across all formats and I will laugh in your face as if it were Richard Pryor performing some of his classic standup in a small New York club.
Even better, he bowled beautiful test lengths in that game and scooped out the heart of the English cricket team with nary more than his bare hands and a leather covered ball. Bumrah took 6 wickets and was instrumental in bundling England out for a crappy 110 inside 26 overs, a total India finished off in 18 overs without the loss of a single wicket. OUCH! Might as well have been a T20 game.
English cricket is all over the place at the moment. Sublime one moment, pure poo the next. I always find 50 over matches of interest as they act like a bridge between tests and the shortest form (currently T20 for internationals) and expose elements of each. Speaking of short form (no not the Australian middle order), I’m worried about the idea of things like The Hundred as it just seems like a gateway drug to even shorter forms of cricket. I mean will we get to the point where it’s just the toss of the coin? Imagine deciding on the line up, I mean who would you pick for opening tosser?
Back to Bumrah. His temperament is perfect, never flustered, and always thinking about his approach to the game. And that Yorker. Best in the game by a way I reckon.
