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Jasprit Bumrah urged India fans to show patience with his team after a disappointing outing for the visitors in the third Test.
Jasprit Bumrah urged India fans to show patience (AP)
Jasprit Bumrah has been the star performer for India against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy so far. He led India to a 295-rn win in the first Test in Perth but were crushed by 10 wickets in the second in Adelaide with the pink ball.
After stumps on third Test’s day three of the five-match series, Bumrah defended the struggling Indian team and played down talk of additional pressure on him, saying it’s a side in transition and given his experience, it’s his “job” to shoulder extra responsibility.
Having taken a seemingly erroneous call of bowling first in the third Test at the Gabba, India conceded a huge first-innings total of 445 despite Bumrah returning 6/76.
In response, the visitors were 51/4 on a rain-hit third day with questions being raised about batters’ technique and the quality of bowling, save for Bumrah.
“We don’t, as a team, point fingers at each other and we don’t want to get into that mindset where we are pointing fingers at each other that ‘you should do this, you should do that’,” Bumrah told media after stumps when asked for his assessment of India’s batting.
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Bumrah said it was difficult for the players to come out to Australia and play in such different conditions from what they are used to. Three of the seamers used by India so far — Nitish Kumar Reddy, Akash Deep and Harshit Rana — had not played a Test in Australia before the tour.
“We, as a team, are going through a transition, new players are coming here and it’s not the easiest place to play cricket. Over here, it’s a different atmosphere with this wicket being a different challenge so yeah, we are not looking at that.” Bumrah, who leads the bowling chart in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with 18 wickets so far.
“As a bowling unit, as I said, we are in transition so it’s my job to help the others. I have played a little more than them so I am trying to help them,” he said.
(With inputs from Agencies)
