India’s Jasprit Bumrah ‘one of the greatest fast bowlers ever’: Travis Head
Al Jazeera
‘It’s going to be nice to look back at your career and tell the grandkids that you faced him,’ Australian batter Head says of star Indian pacer Bumrah.
India’s Jasprit Bumrah will go down as “one of the greatest fast bowlers to play the game”, says Australia’s top-order batter Travis Head as both teams prepare to face-off in the second Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Stand-in skipper Bumrah took eight wickets in a supremely accurate and ferocious display of fast bowling in the first Test to help the visitors to a crushing 295-run victory in Perth on November 25.
The 30-year-old is set to hand the captaincy back to regular skipper Rohit Sharma for the second Test. Unburdened by leadership duties, Bumrah could be even more of a threat under lights with the pink ball.
“Jasprit is probably going to go down as one of the greatest fast bowlers to play the game,” Head said on Monday, before the day-night Test in Adelaide that begins on Friday.
“We’re finding that at the moment – how challenging he can be, and it’s nice to play against that.
