Jasprit Bumrah, Yorkers
Jasprit Bumrah. Image Courtesy: Getty

The ranked number one bowler in world cricket, Jasprit Bumrah reveals what made him fall in love with fast bowling. It was during the IPL a few years back when Bumrah entered the scene. Getting to learn from the King of Yorkers – Lasith Malinga itself in the Mumbai Indians camp; Bumrah acquired the skill of bowling perfect toe-crushing deliveries. He hogged limelight on his debut tour to Australia in 2016 when he got the better of Warner and Faulkner. Meanwhile, ahead of the forthcoming Australia series, Jasprit Bumrah explained how bowling with Tennis balls in his early days helped him.

Tennis ball cricket helped me – Jasprit

Those who’ve followed the game knows how tough is it to bowl a yorker and someone who does it with so much perfection must have worked hard on it. Talking to TOI, Burmah told he used to play a lot of tennis ball cricket in his early days. As with the tennis ball, there are not many variable deliveries left to bowl; Bumrah added he had just one option to bowl at and he is glad to have practised it throughout.

“As a kid, I played a lot of tennis ball cricket and with the tennis ball, you can bowl only one kind of a delivery. There’s the length in question, no bouncers. There’s only one ball that you have to practise. At that time, I played for fun. But later, when you start playing serious cricket, you realise the importance of that delivery,” Bumrah told TOI.

Jasprit Bumrah, Yorkers
Bumrah is known for bowling perfect Yorkers in world cricket. Image Courtesy: Getty

I still have to practice it a lot, reveals Bumrah

Over the years, there have been instances when Bumrah had single-handedly won his team games. Not only his ability to bowl the Yorkers have stunned everyone, bowling it with such accuracy has kept the batsmen on their toes too. Though bowling crunching yorkers comes naturally to him, the India pacer added he still works hard to deliver it to perfection.

“But not that because it naturally comes to me, I don’t have to keep practising it. It still takes the same amount of hard work to get it right in a match situation. I do spend enough hours now trying to get all the little things correct. The line, the length, the bounce. The game now actively involves playing three formats that are very different from each other. So, there’s constant work to be done to stay in tune with each of them,” Bumrah added.

Meanwhile, Bumrah was rested for the limited-overs series against New Zealand. He now remains in contention for a call-up for Australia T20Is, ODIs which begins on February 24th in Vizag.

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