XtraTime Web Desk: After taking his life’s first hat-trick Jasprit Bumrah talked about how he used the wind to get the wickets of Windies bowlers with his vicious out swingers. It was his out-swingers which got rid of Kraigg Brathwaite and then ripped the stumps of John Campbell. Legendary Andy Roberts lauded the performance and said that his skills reminded him of Michael Holding.
5 wickets in the bag and Bumrah had stamped his authority on a ground where the two ends are named after Michael Holding and Courtney Walsh. As he celebrated his feat, Viv Richards remarked on air: “I didn’t imagine I would live to see Indian fast bowlers ruling the world”.
For Viv has seen Andy Roberts, he has seen Joel Garner, he has seen Michael Holding, Malcolm Marshall and then, he has also seen the paucity in the Indian cabinet as far as fast bowlers are concerned. In his own way, Bumrah is delighting the Caribbean islands in the language they love the most – fast bowling, uprooting the stumps, befuddling the batsmen with away swing and aiming for the neck.
So, when Virat Kohli raced up to his bowler, he said what the entire nation and perhaps, the entire cricketing world is saying at the moment: “What a bowler, man! What a bowler!”