Boxing Day Test: Jasprit Bumrah pips Malcolm Marshall, Glenn McGrath in bowling common

Image Source : AP Jasprit Bumrah
Jasprit Bumrah has trumped the likes of Malcolm Marshall, Joel Garner, Curtly Ambrose and Glenn McGrath within the checklist of bowling averages for bowlers with 75 or extra Test wickets during the last fifty years.
Bumrah has now taken 76 wickets in 16 Tests at a median of 20.68 whereas former West Indies tempo bowler Malcolm Marshall is the subsequent finest having taken 376 wickets at a median of 20.94 in 81 Test matches.

Marshall’s fellow West Indies bowler Joel Garner averages 20.97 with 259 wickets in 58 Tests to be on the third spot. Another West Indian, Curtly Ambrose, with 405 wickets at 20.99 in 98 Test matches is simply behind Garner.
Current Australia tempo bowler Pat Cummins rounds off the highest 5 with 153 wickets at a median of 21.51 in 32 Tests, simply forward of fellow Aussie Glenn McGrath who has 563 wickets at 21.64 in 124 Test matches.

Bumrah has taken eight wickets within the two Tests in Australia thus far, selecting 4 for 56 within the first innings of the second Test.
“I don’t look at stats and put unnecessary pressure on myself. I just look to do the basics,” mentioned Bumrah after the Australian innings ended at lunch on Tuesday.
Bumrah, who picked 21 wickets throughout India’s earlier tour of Australia in 2018-19, led the tempo assault effectively within the second innings of the second Test at the same time as Umesh Yadav limped off the sphere in the course of the third day’s play. Bumrah took the prized scalp of Steve Smith and likewise broke the 57-run seventh wicket partnership when he removed Pat Cummins on Tuesday morning.
“The chat was to not complain about being a bowler short and to try and make the run-scoring hard for their batsmen. We were just trying to help each other and have good communication with each other,” Bumrah added.
The 27-year-old has taken 15 wickets in two Tests on the Melbourne Cricket Ground at a median of 13.06. He took 9 for 86 within the 2018 Boxing Day Test and took six for 110 on this Boxing Day Test.