Jasprit Bumrah, an Indian speed phenom, won the ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year Sir Garfield Sobers Award at the ICC Awards, honoring his incredible 2024 in which he outplayed opponents in both the game’s longest and shortest formats.
After Rahul Dravid (2004), Sachin Tendulkar (2010), Ravichandran Ashwin (2016), and Virat Kohli (2017, 2018), the bowling talisman advanced to the finals, defeating fellow nominees Travis Head, Joe Root, and Harry Brook.
Jasprit Bumrah demonstrated why he is among the best fast bowlers in modern cricket, if not the best, in a year where the game frequently favored the hitters. Bumrah, the top-ranked ICC Test Bowler, became the first Indian pacer to reach 200 Test wickets with a record-breaking average of less than 20. He finished the year with a record-breaking 907 points, becoming him the first bowler from India to reach 900 or more points in the ICC Test Bowling Rankings.
