Star Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah started his cricket career as a specialist T20 and soon transformed himself as a Test bowler. Currently, Bumrah is the best bowler for India across all the three formats (Test, T20, and ODI).
Bumrah is known for his deadly yorkers in the death overs. When asked about his secret behind his accurate yorkers, Bumrah credited a lot of tennis ball cricket in his younger days. The right-arm fast bowler also revealed that he always wanted to bowl fast from a very young age.
“As a kid, I played a lot of tennis ball cricket and with the tennis ball, you can bowl only one kind of a delivery. There’s the length in question, no bouncers. There’s only one ball that you have to practise. At that time, I played for fun. But later, when you start playing serious cricket, you realise the importance of that delivery,” Bumrah told Times of India.
Bumrah also stated that with the varying formats and demands of the game, he has to adjust his own style.
“But not that because it naturally comes to me, I don’t have to keep practising it. It still takes the same amount of hard work to get it right in a match situation. I do spend enough hours now trying to get all the little things correct. The line, the length, the bounce. The game now actively involves playing three formats that are very different from each other. So, there’s constant work to be done to stay in tune with each of them,” he added.
Bumrah is expected to make a comeback into the Indian side after being rested after Australia Test series.