Jasprit Bumrah Overtakes Ravichandran Ashwin To Become Quickest To 50 Test Wickets

Jasprit Bumrah adds yet another feather to his glorious hat during the Test match between the Indian National Cricket Team and the West Indies team. He became the quickest Indian bowler to reach 50 Test wickets as far as the deliveries are concerned. Jasprit Bumrah is the quickest fast bowler from India to do as well.

Bumrah dismissed Darren Bravo in the 30th over of the Windies innings to register his 50th Test wicket. He had Bravo plumb in front of the wicket and as a result, the left-hander was adjudged leg-before wicket (LBW). The wicket helped Jasprit Bumrah unlock quite a few records to his name in the remarkable Test career so far.

Jasprit Bumrah picked 50 wickets in 13 matches:

Jasprit Bumrah has reached the milestone faster than Venkatesh Prasad and Mohammed Shami who had taken 13 matches each to 50 Test wickets. Bumrah is also the 3 joint fastest Indian bowler along with Narendra Hirwani and Harbhajan Singh to reach the milestone figure.

Jasprit Bumrah beats spinner Ravichandran Ashwin to become the Indian bowler with fewest deliveries to pick 50 wickets in Test cricket. Bumrah took 2465 balls to pick 50 wickets while Ashwin bowled 2597 deliveries to achieve the feat.

R Ashwin holds the record for the least number of matches to 50 Test wickets (9) while former India coach Anil Kumble stands 2nd on the list after having reached his 1st 50 Test wickets in just 10 matches.

On day two of the first Test, India managed to post 297 runs on the board. The all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja played a knock of 58 runs and was involved in a 60-run stand with Ishant Sharma.  India displayed a clinical performance with the ball in hand reducing Windies to 189/8 in the first innings.

West Indies were 189-8 at stumps in their first innings, still, 108 runs behind in reply to India’s 297 total. Sharma’s first five-wicket haul was the major highlight of the day alongside Ravindra Jadeja’s class with the bat.