India’s quick bowler Jasprit Bumrah made historical past on January 1 by retaining the highest spot within the ICC Check Rankings and recording the highest-ever score factors by an Indian bowler.
Bumrah’s distinctive efficiency within the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, the place he claimed 30 wickets from 4 matches, earned him the highest rank.
Regardless of his particular person success, India misplaced two of the primary 4 matches of the sequence.
Bumrah’s new score of 907 factors surpasses his earlier excessive of 904, which he shared with Ravichandran Ashwin, and locations him joint-Seventeenth on the all-time checklist with English spinner Derek Underwood. England’s Sydney Barnes and George Lohmann high the rankings, with 932 and 931 factors, respectively.
Bumrah additionally made historical past throughout the Boxing Day Check at Melbourne, changing into the quickest Indian pacer to achieve 200 Check wickets.
He surpassed Kapil Dev’s report, who had achieved the milestone in 50 matches in 1983. Bumrah reached the landmark in his forty fourth Check, making him the joint-second quickest Indian to 200 Check wickets, alongside Ravindra Jadeja as Ravichandran Ashwin holds the report, reaching the milestone in 37 Checks.
Bumrah’s 2 hundredth wicket got here in 8,484 balls, putting him fourth quickest by balls bowled, behind Pakistan’s Waqar Younis, South Africa’s Dale Steyn, and Kagiso Rabada.
Quick bowler additionally broke Kapil Dev’s report for many wickets by an Indian pacer in a bilateral Check sequence in Australia.