While most of the talks are around Sanju Samson for his match-winning 97 off 50 against West Indies in Kolkata last night, Jasprit Bumrah remains the unsung hero for Team India. The West Indies cricket team, which had a lot of firepower in its batting line-up, took Varun Chakravarthy, Hardik Pandya, and Arshdeep Singh with ease.
Jasprit Bumrah was not among those bowlers who conceded 10 runs per over. The right-arm pacer cliched Roston Chase and Shimron Hetmyer, two well-set batters, finishing his four-over spell wth 3/36 with an economy rate of 9.00.
After the match, former England captain Michael Vaughan discussed why Bumrah is great in the game. Vaughan pointed out that Bumrah is not only about lethal yorkers or outswingers, but also about pace variations, which proved very useful for the seamers in the ongoing T20 World Cup 2026.
"You look at the numbers there, the average when he bowls balls under 128km an hour, he's got 12 wickets at an average of 7.41. His economy is 4.52, I mean it doesn't go up that much higher when it gets a little bit quicker but his average does", the former England captain while speaking in a Cricbuzz programme after the match.
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— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz) March 2, 2026"So you look at his average from 128 to 140km an hour, it goes up to 30 where he's only got 7 wickets. Now he goes a bit quicker and the average gets to that kind of level before the 128km/h. 140 plus is averaging 10, 14 wickets, economy of 5.15. So you look at that economy across all those kinds of paces, it's very very good", he added.
Jasprit Bumrah's pace variations in T20Is
SpeedBallsWicketsAverageStrike RateEconomy RateDot Balls %Less than 128 KMPH118127.419.84.5251.2128-140 KMPH226730.8532.25.7347.8More Than 140 KMPH1631410.0011.65.1550.6In the ongoing T20 World Cup 2026, the pace spearhead has been playing constantly for the Men in Blue. In 6 matches so far the tournament, Jasprit Bumrah bagged a total of 9 wickets after playing 6 matches.
Bumrah's bowling performances in the recent matches of the T20 World Cup 2026:
No.MatchBowling Figures1India vs West Indies2/362India vs Zimbabwe0/213India vs South Africa3/154India vs Netherlands1/175India vs Pakistan2/176India vs Namibia1/20He's like a bowling machine- Michael Vaughan
Later in his explanation, Michael Vaughan labelled Jasprit Bumrah as a machine. The former mentioned, bowlers often slightly change their actions to generate swings. But Bumrah does that without making any adjustments in his bowling action.
"He's like a bowling machine. He kind of sets himself and goes, right, I'll bowl an in-swinger. And it's without a distinct change of action", he added.
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