Jasprit Bumrah Wins ICC Test Player of the Year 2024 Award: Jasprit Bumrah, a prominent fast bowler from India, was named the ICC Test Player of the Year 2024 on Monday, January 27. Last year, he dismissed 71 batsmen in 13 Test matches.
In the home series against England and the away series against Australia, Bumrah was playing at the top of his game for India.
Before taking 19 wickets in four Test matches against England, Bumrah began 2024 with six wickets in the second innings in the Cape Town Test match against South Africa on January 4, 2024.
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Bumrah claimed nine wickets (6+3) in the second Test at Vizag after dismissing six batsmen (2+4) in the series opener at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.
In addition to winning Player of the Match, his outstanding performance with the ball in Visakhapatnam elevated him to the top of the Test bowling rankings.
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Bumrah finished the two-match series against Bangladesh in September-October with 11 wickets, and in the first two matches of the New Zealand series, he picked up three wickets.
Bumrah took eight wickets (5+3) while leading India in the opening Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy without Rohit Sharma. India took a 1-0 lead in the series under his leadership after crushing the Australians by 295 runs in four days.
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Bumrah took nine wickets in the third (6+3) and fourth (4+5) Tests at The Gabba and Melbourne Cricket Ground, respectively, and dismissed four Australian batsmen in the Day-Night Test held at Adelaide Oval from December 6–8.
In addition to his bowling, Bumrah impressed with his batting as well in the first innings of the Brisbane Test and scored 10 runs as No. 10 batter to help India successfully avoid the follow-on.
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