The Indian cricket team’s star speedster, Jasprit Bumrah, is known for his excellence in all three formats, but he considers Test cricket to be the “king” of the game.
Ahead of the five-match Test series against England, Bumrah highlighted the importance of Test cricket while calling it the king of the game. He is the most experienced seamer in the Indian squad for the upcoming Test series against England, starting on January 25 in Hyderabad.
Bumrah has so far played 32 Test matches, taking 140 wickets, but he, surprisingly, has only played four Test matches at home, and now he is looking forward to home Tests against England.
Jasprit Bumrah was quoted as saying by The Guardian: “I am of that generation where Test cricket is king. I will always judge myself on it. Yes, I started with IPL, but I learned to bowl through first-class cricket; that’s where I developed my skill, the art of taking wickets. In Test cricket you have to get the batsman out and that challenges you as a bowler.”
The surfaces for the upcoming five-match Test series are expected to favor the spinners, which means there is no clarity on how many games Bumrah will get this time, as he played just two of the four matches when England last toured India in 2021.
Speaking about the same, the Indian pacer explained: “T20s, ODIs, some days you might send down five slower balls and get five guys out when in a Test match they wouldn’t have taken one.”
Bumrah signed off by saying, “There is no luck in Test cricket, the better team wins, you cannot take 20 wickets through luck. I was never happy with just white-ball cricket and Test cricket is still the utmost format for me.”
(With The Guardian Inputs)
