Bumrah picked 5/74, his first fifer at the famed Lord's ground.
India’s Jasprit Bumrah received great praise from England great Stuart Broad after he picked 5/74 in the ongoing third Test at Lord’s on day 2. This was Bumrah’s 15th five-wicket haul and first one at Lord’s, with his name going on the honors board at Lord’s.
The record held by former Indian captain Kapil Dev for the most five-fors by an Indian in Test matches played abroad was surpassed by Bumrah. With his 13th five-wicket haul abroad in Test matches for India, Bumrah broke Dev's record of 12 overseas five-fors.
Stuart Broad, a former pacer for England and their second-highest wicket-keeper in Test matches, has lavished Bumrah with praise, calling him a bowler who "challenges the best batters of the world."
“To be honest, that spell of getting Stokes (Ben), Root (Joe), and Woakes (Chris) summed up Jasprit Bumrah of what he does really. He challenges the best batters in the world. Left- and right-handers bring all sorts of dismissals, stumps, and nicks into play. And it was amazing drama, amazing theater. It was wonderful. It was a bit of swing, a bit of carry.
A few boundaries away, but no one had settled. And then the one moving back down the hill to Stokes through the gate, off stump out of the ground, was just, you know, Jasprit Bumrah can do that. And he really deserved to end up on that honors board,” Broad told Sky Sports.
After bowling more than ten overs with the second new ball, India requested a change; thus, the Indian pacer will have to wait for his fifth wicket for a while. England batsmen Jamie Smith and Brydon Carse put together a partnership of 84 runs for the eighth wicket with the substitute ball.
After a while, the ball had to be changed again, and Broad believed that if Indian captain Shubman Gill hadn't requested a second change of balls after ten overs, Bumrah would have taken his maiden five wickets at Lord's much earlier in the day.
“I think he would have probably ended up on it a bit earlier if they had not changed the ball. The ball was swinging around, nipping, and it went out of shape, and they changed it. And you could tell immediately that Shubman Gill was frustrated with what happened. They gave them a softer ball, which is what they were looking to change, and it didn’t do as much from that moment. So Bumrah had to show a bit of patience to get the five,” Broad added.
Bumrah, who now has 215 wickets in 47 Tests with an average of 19.49 and best figures of 6/27, has equaled legendary Pakistani pacer Wasim Akram's record of 11 five-wicket hauls in SENA (South Africa, England, New Zealand, and Australia) countries.