Former India captain Kapil Dev was all praises for fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah, who will be part of India’s upcoming tour of Australia, where the team will play 4 Tests, 3 ODIs, and 3 T20Is starting November 27.

Kapil named Bumrah as the bowler he likes to watch the most from today’s era during the 18th Hindustan Times Leadership Summit. Kapil pointed out that although watching Bumrah perform gives him immense happiness, the 26-year-old needs to look out for his body.

“Four or eight overs is fine. When he has to bowl 20 or 25 overs in a day for 3,4 5 test matches, then it would be tough because he puts so much effort with his short run-up,” Kapil said.

He further said, “What (Michael] Holding said is right. He is going to put so much pressure on his body. I hope he can survive. But today with that short run-up, he can rattle the batsmen more often than any other bowlers I have seen.”

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Bumrah had made his India debut in 2016 in limited-overs and Test debut in 2018. He has 68 wickets in 14 Tests, including a hat-trick, 104 wickets in 64 ODIs, and 59 wickets in 50 T20I matches. He had picked up a 6-fer in the MCG Test the last time India toured Australia, helping India win that Test and retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy as well.

Kapil, widely credited for leading India’s revolution in fast bowling, takes immense pride in knowing that India possesses a bowling attack today which no team’s batsmen can afford to take lightly.

“I read somewhere that Brian Lara said he would rather prefer facing Kapil Dev but not Bumrah. Our fast bowlers are brilliant. Look at Shami, Bumrah. As a cricketer, it gives me a lot of happiness to say that today we depend on our fast bowlers. Our bowlers are capable of taking 20 wickets in a match,” Kapil pointed out.

“We’ve had spinners in the past whom we have depended more – Kumble, Harbhajan - but today no country would like to say ‘give them (Indian team) bouncy wickets’.”