There are bowlers who are called great, especially nowadays, perhaps an exercise of passion, but one that may not always seem apt.
For sure, it’s a free world. Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but
just what constitutes a great? In a game, which has become ever so batting inclined with several rules arguably speaking, favoured towards batters, powerplay and impact player substitution rule as most commonly seen in the IPL, hasn’t the bowlers job become even more difficult than what’s the fan, seeing the game from the comfort of his zone perceives?
And if some of that, just some of that is true or pointing to something which we must consider as a grave challenge of the times, then it’s fair to say the phrase great bowler must be chosen carefully.
For if not, then it would be a bit of a service to those who genuinely combine Grid and talent, and not to forget the appetite to serve whenever needed. Against that narrative, it makes sense to call Jasprit Bumrah and all farm at great in the Art of Fast bowling.
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K Raja, some of numbers which perhaps be greater attention than given in an age where even a cameo in a franchise Cricket makes headlines, however, difficult or challenging it may have been on its day
234 test match wickets, 151ODI wickets, and that’s not all. There is the 126 T20 Internations wickets from just hundred games for India. Bumrah nicknamed boom boom for causing devastation for batters, has done all of it whilst not even being the epitome of peak fitness. Something that he’s been questioned about, critiqued and in this age of social media overdrive, even trolled.
When Jasprit Bumrah comes into bowl, especially in a T20 contest for India, it is a given or an invisible rule of the game that would be the hardest for better Simply because he doesn’t leak or give away easy runs.
His 10 overs spell in ODI cricket has often subjected batters to state where it feels that either they are clueless, with much due respect, plain mediocre or unable to express or come to terms with the sheer variations the right arm fast bowler comes to challenge them with.
Sanju Samson said “I feel there is no replacement for Jasprit Bumrah actually – he is a once in a generation kind of a bowler – we are very lucky to have him”. [Cricbuzz] https://t.co/47ofPQJTja
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) October 15, 2026
Which is why it helps to understand why one of Bumrah’s India colleague, someone who has seen him closely, shattering the stumps, and putting the best of bats onto their backfoot, has said what he said-
In the words of the much loved Sanju Samson, the latest entrant o an elite list of India batters with most T20I wickets happened to share the following and what a tribute it really is-
“I feel there is no replacement for Jasprit Bumrah actually – he is a once in a generation kind of a bowler – we are very lucky to have him”. [as per a latest report published on Cricbuzz]
