Australia vs India Test: Team India’s fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah created history on Sunday (29 December). He has become the first bowler in the history of Test cricket to take 200 wickets at an average of less than 20. Bumrah, who is playing his 44th Test match for India these days against Australia in Melbourne, has 202 wickets in his name at an average of 19.38. Now Bumrah’s name is at number one among the bowlers who have taken 200 wickets with the best average. He surpassed Joel Garner and Shaun Pollock by taking 200 wickets at an average of 19.56.
After the stormy bowling of Bumrah, with the excellent batting of the lower order, Australia tightened the noose on the match by scoring 228 runs for 9 wickets in the second innings on the fourth day of the fourth cricket test against India and taking its total lead to 333 runs. Has been included in the list of great fast bowlers Jasprit Bumrah In the third innings of the fourth match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, he took 3 wickets in two consecutive overs, pushing Australia on the back foot.
He completed the 200th wicket of his career by getting Travis Head caught by Nitish Reddy standing at short mid-wicket on the second ball of the 34th over. Travis Head scored just 1 run on 3 balls. After this, he gave the fifth blow to Australia by getting Mitchell Marsh caught by wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant on the last ball of the same over.
In the very next over, he bowled out Alex Carey, giving the sixth blow to Australia. Australia took its total lead to 333 runs by scoring 228 runs for nine wickets in the second innings on the fourth day of the fourth cricket test against India. For India, Jasprit Bumrah took four wickets while Mohammad Siraj took three wickets. At the end of the day’s play, Nathan Lyon was playing on 41 runs while Scott Boland was playing on 10 runs. Both have made an unbroken partnership of 55 runs for the last wicket.
left the giants behind
For Australia, Marnus Labuschagne scored the highest innings of 70 runs while captain Pat Cummins also scored 41 runs. In response to Australia’s first innings score of 479 runs, the Indian team was able to score only 369 runs. Jasprit Bumrah took 4 wickets for 28 runs in 13 overs in Australia’s second innings of this match. Bumrah’s average became the best in the world in the list of bowlers with more than 200 wickets. He has taken 202 wickets in his career at an excellent average of 19.5. He is followed by all-time legends Malcolm Marshall, Joel Garner, and Curtly Ambrose in terms of average. Whose average is 20.0, 21.0, 21.0 respectively.
Earlier, after the start of the fourth day’s play, India started its innings with a lead of 358/9 in 116 overs. After the start of the day’s play, India’s innings ended after adding only 11 runs. Centurion Nitish Reddy scored 114 runs and was caught by Mitchell Starc off the ball of Nathan Lyon. The last batsman Mohammad Siraj remained unbeaten after scoring 4 runs. After India’s first innings was all out, Australia’s second innings did not have a good start.
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In the sixth over of the innings, Jasprit Bumrah bowled Sam Constas, who was debuting in this match, on a personal score of 8 runs. After this the Australian batsmen made small contributions in the second innings. Opener Usman Khawaja played an inning of 21 runs before being bowled by Siraj. Apart from this, Steve Smith contributed 13 runs before being caught by Pant on Siraj’s ball. None of the remaining Australian batsmen could touch the double digit figure.