With an awkward action, Jasprit Bumrah never fails to deceive the best of batsmen. Within no time, he has become the captain's first-choice opening and death bowler across all the three formats. Representing Gujarat in the domestic cricket, Bumrah bowls for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL). It won't be unfair to credit Sri Lanka's veteran speedster Lasith Malinga for Bumrah's success in international cricket. Having played together for Mumbai in the IPL, Bumrah has learnt a lot from the million-dollar arm-pacer, who has an equally odd bowling action. He first played for India in an ODI match on January 23, 2016, at Sydney. His T20I debut too came soon after as he took the field against the same opponents at Adelaide on January 26, 2016. The Ahmedabad-born fast bowler had to wait for two years before debuting in the longest format of cricket. Bumrah's Test debut came in January 2018 at Cape Town.
Read MoreBumrah, who has been out of action since September due to a stress fracture, was on Monday named in the India squad for the home T20s and ODIs against Sri Lanka and Australia, respectively, next month.
Ishant was given rest for a couple of Ranji Trophy games as a part of BCCI's workload management programme and he will now try to get back into the groove before the New Zealand Test tour.
Senior Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan also returned to India's squad for the upcoming limited over series.
Bumrah, who recently bowled at the India nets, is fit for competitive cricket and could be picked for either the T20 series against Sri Lanka beginning on January 5 or the ODI series against a full-strength Australian side starting on January 14.
Bumrah, who recently bowled at the Indian team's nets, is nearly back to his full fitness having recovered from a stress fracture and the former Sri Lanka great feels the pacer can start playing by January (when Sri Lanka and Australia will be here) or latest by February.
BCCI Sourav Ganguly was responding to a report that Rahul Dravid had declined Jasprit Bumrah's request for a fitness test at the NCA.
Chris Lynn was bought by Mumbai Indians at his base price of INR 2 crore and was happy that he doesn't have to play Jasprit Bumrah anymore.
Lynn was roped in Mumbai Indians for INR 2 crores in Kolkata for the impending Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 season
Jasprit Bumrah is recovering from an injury and is set to practice with the team in order to regain fitness.
Jasprit Bumrah will bowl to the likes of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma and test his back as the training team led by Nitin Patel.
Amarnath feels that while the Indian team looks like a settled side with formidable talent across department, he hopes Pandya and Bumrah heal well.
On Friday, Indian Premier League franchise Mumbai Indians took a cheeky dig at the former Pakistan all-rounder and wished the Indian and MI pacer in a unique way.
Irfan though did not take any name in his comment on Twitter but he did use '#Bumrah' in his tweet which implied that it was a response to Razzaq's statement.
This indicates that Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammed Shami are almost certain to make the cut.
Bumrah will, however, miss the upcoming limited-overs assignment against West Indies starting December 6.
The combination of Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah has bagged 95 wickets in 2019 at 15.16 an average and a strike rate of around 30
Indian fast bowlers bagged 95 wickets between themselves in 2019 at a record average of 15.16 hence capping off their best calendar-year performance.
Zaheer Khan has advised India's premier fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah to not hurry his comeback after the 25-year-old was sidelined in October with a stress fracture.
On his road to recovery from injury, Bumrah tweeted a picture of the middle stump broken in the nets, hinting that he is on course to make a comeback with a bang.
Bumrah was part of the Windies tour after World Cup 2019, however, a stress fracture on his lower back in September ruled him out of the series against South Africa.
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