Bumrah becomes the fastest bowler from India to reach 200 Test wickets.
India’s Jasprit Bumrah, unquestionably one of the best fastest bowlers of all time, reached a new high in his cricketing career by surpassing the 200-wicket mark in Tests. On Day 4 of the fourth Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday, Bumrah dismissed Australia’s Travis Head. Bumrah, who was already the series’ leading wicket-taker, surpassed all-time greats including Beats Malcolm Marshall, Joel Garner, and Curtly Ambrose to reach 200 scalps. Bumrah has the greatest average of any bowler with 200 or more Test wickets.
Bumrah, who went on to capture the 201st and 202nd wickets shortly thereafter, has a Test cricket average of 19.5, which places him ahead of Malcolm Marshall (20.9), Joel Garner (21.0), and Curtly Ambrose.
In fact, Bumrah is the first bowler in Test history to have taken 200 wickets while keeping an average of less than 20.Burmrah reached several milestones, including 200 wickets in the longest format of the game. The bowler bowled Travis Head (1) for his 200th victim in the post-lunch session, joining Jadeja as the second-fastest Indian to reach 200 wickets in Tests.
Both Bumrah and Jadeja accomplished the accomplishment in their 44th Test, making him the 12th Indian bowler in the format to reach the milestone.
Ravichandran Ashwin, the recently retired Indian spinner, was the quickest among Indians to get 200 wickets, which he accomplished in his 37th Test.Ashwin comes in third place on the list of bowlers who reached 200 Test wickets the quickest, behind two leg-spinners: Clarrie Grimmett of Australia (36 Tests) and Yasir Shah of Pakistan (33 Tests).
With Head’s departure and Mitchell Marsh’s (0) catch behind the wicket, Bumrah’s Border-Gavaskar Trophy wicket total reached 28.
Prior to this, he had taken his first wicket in Australia’s second innings, dismissing opener Sam Konstas (8).
