XtraTime Web Desk: Team India’s leading fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah is happy to prove his critics wrong.
Bumrah, who has gone from strength to strength ever since he made his debut for India in January 2016, is a satisfied cricketer today. But according the 26 year old cricketer there was a time when many questioned his ability to represent the country. The Indian pacer made this revelation during a live session on Instagram with former India batsman Yuvraj Singh.
“Many people told me that I won’t play for long, there was an expectation that the last person to play for the country would be me,” said Bumrah when Yuvraj asked him about his unusual bowling action.
He added, “They told me that I would just play the Ranji Trophy. But I kept on improving and I persisted with my action.”
The Mumbai Indians fast bowler is now the go-to bowler of Virat Kohli in all formats of the game.
During the chat, Yuvraj reminded Bumrah that he had predicted that the pacer would go on to become the “number one bowler in the world”. And he did in 2017, when he achieved the top spot in T20I rankings.
Bumrah has so far played play 64 ODIs, 50 T20Is and 14 Tests.