Team India’s fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah is performing brilliantly in the Border Gavaskar Trophy. He is the bowler taking the most wickets in this series. Apart from this, he has remained the number 1 bowler in the ICC Test rankings for some time. The International Cricket Council has now also announced the first ranking for the year 2025. Jasprit Bumrah has created history in this ranking. Jasprit Bumrah has done a feat which no Indian bowler has been able to do before.
Bumrah created history on the very first day of the year
- Bumrah recently took 9 wickets in the Melbourne Test. This strong performance has helped him consolidate his lead as the number 1 Test bowler in the ranking updates. Jasprit Bumrah now has 907 rating points. With this he became the highest ranked Indian Test bowler in the history of ICC rankings. Before this, no Indian bowler had been able to achieve so many rating points in the Test rankings.
- Let us tell you that before Jasprit Bumrah, R Ashwin was the highest ranked Indian Test bowler in the history of ICC rankings. Bumrah had equaled him in the previous ranking and this time he managed to surpass him.
- Ashwin had touched the figure of 904 rating points in December 2016. Also, in the list of world’s best rated bowlers, he is jointly ranked 17th with England’s Derek Underwood.
2024 is a memorable year for Bumrah
2024 has been a very memorable year for Jasprit Bumrah. He took 86 wickets in 21 international matches at an average of 13.76. In which he also achieved the feat of taking 5 wickets five times. He took 71 wickets in 13 test matches. In the Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25, he has taken 30 wickets in 4 matches so far. No bowler in this list is even close to Bumrah.
