Awesome performance by Indian pace bowlers in West Indies; Bumrah hat-trick
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Bumrah is just in awesome form. What bowling! This video clip does not have the commentator audio which is a pity as the commentators were utterly awed by Bumrah's performance. This man is doing something that a guy like me finds it very hard to believe and is thrilled watching. An Indian fast bowler ripping through the West Indies in West Indies! Wow!
This clip has the hat-trick too. But the lack of audio makes it difficult to understand. This is the official bite-size video.
The initial part of the video covers the Indian innings on Day 2 of 2nd Test. The video caption incorrectly says 1st Test - it should be 2nd Test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjYfItOK2o4, 2 min. 19 secs.
Update: From around 28 mins in this longer official video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SPDcVfQTLE, we have the West Indies innings with commentator audio. Bumrah's five wickets including the hat-trick are shown from this point till around 34 mins. 30 secs, at which time West Indies have been reduced to 22 for 5! All these 5 wickets went to Bumrah!
I think one of the commentators is the great West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding. What an absolutely beautiful fast bowling action he had, in his days, besides being a great wicket taker! One of the other commentators is Indian cricketing great, Sunil Gavaskar.
Around 32 mins. we have the Bumrah hat-trick with the umpire first ruling not-out but the review declaring the batsman out.
Gavaskar says that the bowling was marvellous but that the ball was going down the legside, and that the hat-trick possibility led to Indian captain Virat Kohli seek a review.
The review declares the batsman out. Then Holding says, "(Third) hat-trick for an Indian in Test match cricket and it could not go to a more special bowler."
That's some praise for the current Indian fast bowling sensation from the West Indies fast bowling legend! I thoroughly enjoyed Michael Holding's comments - icing on the cake of Bumrah's performance.
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Viv Richards: "I didn’t imagine I would live to see Indian fast bowlers ruling the world"
The great cricketing legend Viv Richards says what I feel about Bumrah and company's performance, so well. India vs West Indies: Viv Richards pays ultimate tribute to Jasprit Bumrah, https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/india-vs-west-indies-viv-richards-pays-ultimate-tribute-to-jasprit-bumrah/story-mkW6avysbsoKoSLteGkALL.html, 1st Sept. 2019
The article quotes Viv Richards as saying on air, "I didn’t imagine I would live to see Indian fast bowlers ruling the world".
Of course, Richards means the cricketing world.
Viv Richards says it perfectly. As a young cricket fan in the 70s & 80s, I have seen how West Indies fast bowlers as well as fast bowlers from other countries like Australia and England, dominated the fast bowling scene. India had nobody in that category. Kapil Dev who emerged and rose to stardom in the late 70s and 80s was wonderful for India, but he was a medium pace (fast-medium I think is the official category) bowler. Kapil surely made India's pace attack far better than earlier where we relied almost entirely on spin bowlers to take wickets. Really! Chandra, Bedi, Prasanna and Venkat were the bowlers - all spin bowlers - who would win Test matches for India prior to Kapil Dev entering the scene.
Viv Richards was one of the top batsmen in the world in those days (70s & 80s). My God! He sauntered onto the cricket field like a king, and batted like a king! No helmet for him, no matter which fearsome fast bowler was bowling mean bouncers at him. Of course, he would get out, and at times, for paltry scores. But while he was at the crease, he batted like a king. King Viv! I think nobody in the international cricket Tests arena could match him in terms of that saunter and that arrogance as a batsman. And he would also be chewing gum :-). What a king-size character!
Like Viv Richards, I did not imagine that I would live to see Indian fast bowlers dominate international cricket Test arena. Hats off to the current pack of Jasprit Bumrah, Ishant Sharma and Mohammad Shami, and also to those who paved the way for them in the previous years & decades like Kapil Dev and Zaheer Khan.
https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2582447161971845
Bumrah is just in awesome form. What bowling! This video clip does not have the commentator audio which is a pity as the commentators were utterly awed by Bumrah's performance. This man is doing something that a guy like me finds it very hard to believe and is thrilled watching. An Indian fast bowler ripping through the West Indies in West Indies! Wow!
This clip has the hat-trick too. But the lack of audio makes it difficult to understand. This is the official bite-size video.
The initial part of the video covers the Indian innings on Day 2 of 2nd Test. The video caption incorrectly says 1st Test - it should be 2nd Test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjYfItOK2o4, 2 min. 19 secs.
Update: From around 28 mins in this longer official video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SPDcVfQTLE, we have the West Indies innings with commentator audio. Bumrah's five wickets including the hat-trick are shown from this point till around 34 mins. 30 secs, at which time West Indies have been reduced to 22 for 5! All these 5 wickets went to Bumrah!
I think one of the commentators is the great West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding. What an absolutely beautiful fast bowling action he had, in his days, besides being a great wicket taker! One of the other commentators is Indian cricketing great, Sunil Gavaskar.
Around 32 mins. we have the Bumrah hat-trick with the umpire first ruling not-out but the review declaring the batsman out.
Gavaskar says that the bowling was marvellous but that the ball was going down the legside, and that the hat-trick possibility led to Indian captain Virat Kohli seek a review.
The review declares the batsman out. Then Holding says, "(Third) hat-trick for an Indian in Test match cricket and it could not go to a more special bowler."
That's some praise for the current Indian fast bowling sensation from the West Indies fast bowling legend! I thoroughly enjoyed Michael Holding's comments - icing on the cake of Bumrah's performance.
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Viv Richards: "I didn’t imagine I would live to see Indian fast bowlers ruling the world"
The great cricketing legend Viv Richards says what I feel about Bumrah and company's performance, so well. India vs West Indies: Viv Richards pays ultimate tribute to Jasprit Bumrah, https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/india-vs-west-indies-viv-richards-pays-ultimate-tribute-to-jasprit-bumrah/story-mkW6avysbsoKoSLteGkALL.html, 1st Sept. 2019
The article quotes Viv Richards as saying on air, "I didn’t imagine I would live to see Indian fast bowlers ruling the world".
Of course, Richards means the cricketing world.
Viv Richards says it perfectly. As a young cricket fan in the 70s & 80s, I have seen how West Indies fast bowlers as well as fast bowlers from other countries like Australia and England, dominated the fast bowling scene. India had nobody in that category. Kapil Dev who emerged and rose to stardom in the late 70s and 80s was wonderful for India, but he was a medium pace (fast-medium I think is the official category) bowler. Kapil surely made India's pace attack far better than earlier where we relied almost entirely on spin bowlers to take wickets. Really! Chandra, Bedi, Prasanna and Venkat were the bowlers - all spin bowlers - who would win Test matches for India prior to Kapil Dev entering the scene.
Viv Richards was one of the top batsmen in the world in those days (70s & 80s). My God! He sauntered onto the cricket field like a king, and batted like a king! No helmet for him, no matter which fearsome fast bowler was bowling mean bouncers at him. Of course, he would get out, and at times, for paltry scores. But while he was at the crease, he batted like a king. King Viv! I think nobody in the international cricket Tests arena could match him in terms of that saunter and that arrogance as a batsman. And he would also be chewing gum :-). What a king-size character!
Like Viv Richards, I did not imagine that I would live to see Indian fast bowlers dominate international cricket Test arena. Hats off to the current pack of Jasprit Bumrah, Ishant Sharma and Mohammad Shami, and also to those who paved the way for them in the previous years & decades like Kapil Dev and Zaheer Khan.
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