Former India head coach Ravi Shastri has heaped massive praise on pacer Jasprit Bumrah following the country’s triumph at T20 World Cup 2024. Bumrah played a pivotal role in helping India win the ICC tournament last month. Shastri lauded Bumrah’s contribution and said that the bowler has shown the world how to command every delivery.
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Ravi Shastri lauds Jasprit Bumrah
“He (Bumrah) just showed the world what it takes…and you know, it’s not often in your career when you have a ball in your hand and you say, ‘do this and the ball does that’. I think the India-Pakistan (match) because India were made to fight there and realise what the right combination should be going forward in the tournament. That and then of course the (T20 World Cup) final, those final five overs,” Ravi Shastri told ICC Review.
“I’d say one was Jasprit (Bumrah) getting Mohammad Rizwan. Extremely crucial, because that could have tilted the balance of the game. And it happened on the first ball of a new spell. Brought back into the attack and then getting it to reverse and sneak through bat and pad (of Marco Jansen), I thought that was a very, very important wicket at that time,” Shastri recalled.
Jansen was the sixth Protea wicket to fall in the 18th over with the South Africans requiring 21 runs for victory off 15 balls.
Ravi Shastri was all praise for Suryakumar Yadav‘s stunning catch on the boundary to send back David Miller and reduced the Proteas to 161/7 with just five deliveries remaining in the final.
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“I think that (catch) was a game changer because you know what David (Miller) can do,” Ravi Shastri said.
“Another big shot (from Miller), and then, you know, the game’s in the balance. So, I thought the timing couldn’t have been better.” Shastri said he was amazed by Pant’s resoluteness to return to top-notch cricket after a near-fatal car crash, which left him out of the game for more than a year.
“He did his job with the bat, but it was his keeping that really surprised everyone. For someone to recover that quickly and then move the way he did.
“He hardly missed anything, albeit he must have felt the pressure as the tournament got on because it’s not easy to come back and do all the stuff he did,” Shastri added.
(With PTI inputs)
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