Jasprit Bumrah and Virat Kohli
IND vs AUS: When Team India lost in the Melbourne Test, Australia took a 2-1 lead in the 5-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Even after this, the fans were hopeful that Team India would be successful in winning at least the last Test match in the Border-Gavaskar series and would be successful in retaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. But nothing like that happened. The beginning of the new year was very disappointing for Team India. With the defeat by 6 wickets in the Sydney Test, the BGT title slipped from the hands of Team India. Not only this, Team India’s dream of going to the WTC final for the third consecutive time was also shattered.
The Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 started on 22 November last year in which Team India started with a spectacular win under the captaincy of Jasprit Bumrah. In the first Test played in Perth, Team India gave one of the biggest defeats to Australia at home. Jasprit Bumrah had a huge contribution in the historic victory in Perth. Bumrah attempted to take 5 wickets in the first innings and then dismissed 3 batsmen in the second innings. This brilliant performance of Bumrah also encouraged his fellow bowlers and they also pushed the Australian batsmen on the backfoot with the ball.
Team India’s batsmen disappointed
After the victory in the first test, there was hope that this tour is going to prove to be excellent for Team India because just a few days before this, Team India had to face a clean sweep in the 3-match test series at home by a team like New Zealand. . Team India entered Adelaide with full confidence because now the team had the support of a regular captain in the form of Rohit Sharma, but in this day-night test, Australia won in a one-sided manner by 10 wickets. In this match too, Bumrah performed brilliantly with the ball but the batsmen ruined Team India’s fortunes. The Gabba Test was a draw but Bumrah’s rhythm remained intact in this match also. By taking 9 wickets in the third test, he showed that there is no bowler bigger than him in this series.
Bumrah’s hard work wasted
In the last two matches of BGT, Team India needed to do better with the bat but except Bumrah, no one felt the need to contribute. The result was that Bumrah’s brilliant bowling was completely wasted by the Indian batsmen and the series was lost 1-3. In this entire series, Bumrah took 32 wickets and became the Indian bowler who took the most wickets in a Test series in Australia. For this brilliant performance he was also awarded the Player of the Series award. He is the second Indian bowler after Kapil Dev to win the Player of the Series award in Tests in Australia.
Bumrah vs other Indian pacers
While Bumrah alone took 32 wickets on the Australia tour, all other Indian fast bowlers together took 40 wickets. During this period, Bumrah took 5 wickets thrice whereas no other Indian bowler could do so. From this it can be estimated how weak and bad the condition of the bowling of the Indian team is without Bumrah.
Indians who won the Player of the Series (POS) award for India in Tests in Australia
- 2025 – Jasprit Bumrah
- 2018 – Cheteshwar Pujara
- 2004 – Rahul Dravid
- 1999 – Sachin Tendulkar
- 1985 – Kapil Dev/K Srikanth
Jasprit Bumrah made a small but important contribution in this series not only with the ball but also with the bat. When Team India’s batsmen bowed down in the first innings of the 5th Test, Bumrah also added runs on the scoreboard with the bat. He scored 22 runs in 17 balls with the help of 3 fours and 1 six. In this entire series, a total of 42 runs came from his bat, which is more runs than Rohit Sharma.
Highest Player of the Series award for India in SENA Test
- 3 – Jasprit Bumrah*
- 3 – Rahul Dravid
- 2 – Kapil Dev
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