It’s the first day of India’s home season of the 2025-27 ICC World Test Championship and Jasprit Bumrah has already started setting new benchmarks. On the opening day of the first Test between India and West
Indies in Ahmedabad, Bumrah created a new record by becoming the quickest Indian bowler to 50 wickets at home.
The pace spearhead reached the milestone when he cleaned up Windies batter Johann Layne on 1 in the second session of the contest at the Narendra Modi Stadium. He took 1747 deliveries reach half-centuries of Test wickets which is the lowest by an Indian at home.
Bumrah Joint Fastest India Pacer To 50 Wickets At Home
Bumrah also became the joint-fastest India pacer, by innings, to reach 50 wickets at home. With his 50th Test wicket in India in 24th innings, he drew level with the legendary Javagal Srinath. The next best on the list is legendary allrounder Kapil Dev who needed 25 innings while Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami complete the top-three with 27 innings each.
Siraj, Bumrah Flatten WI
West Indies decision to bat first in Ahmedabad backfired as India pacers Mohammed Siraj and Bumrah shared seven wickets to bowl them out for 162. Siraj was the tormenter-in-chief in the morning session as he took three wickets in it with the tourists struggling to 90/5 at lunch break.
Bumrah took over from Siraj after managing one wicket in the first session. He produced two rippers to clean up Justin Greaves and Johann Layne and finished with 3/42 from 14 overs.
Siraj was the pick of the bowlers, taking 4/40 from 14 overs.
Kuldeep Yadav (2/25) and Washington Sundar (1/9) were also among the wickets while Ravindra Jadeja and Nitish Reddy were wicketless.
There was plenty of debate around Bumrah’s workload management during the England tour where he played three of the five Tests despite being fully fit.
When India captain Shubman Gill was asked if the team will continue to follow the policy in the West Indies series, he replied, “We will take a call on match to match (basis), how long a game goes and how many overs a bowler bowls. Nothing is pre-decided.”
