IND vs AUS 3rd Test, Jasprit Bumrah, Akash Deep: Jasprit Bumrah and Akashdeep, these are the names which the Australian cricket team and its fans will not be able to forget for years. Both these bowlers did something with the bat that the world will remember for years. Three years ago, Rishabh Pant had broken the pride of Kangaroos in Gabba. Today Bumrah and Akashdeep have broken his morale.
It happened that in the third Test being played at Gabba, India lost 9 wickets for 213 runs in reply to Australia’s 445 runs. From here India needed 33 runs to avoid follow on. Australian bowlers were on fire. Still, Bumrah and Akashdeep stood firm like rocks and made the seemingly impossible task possible. By making a partnership of 39 runs in 54 balls on the fourth day, both of them not only avoided the follow-on but also almost avoided India’s defeat.
Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc tried all their weapons against Bumrah and Akashdeep, but none of them could match the spirit of these two. The Australian captain also gambled by getting Nathan Lyon to bowl, but that too did not work.
The patience, temperament and application shown by Akashdeep, who came to bat with Virat’s bat, was not visible even in Virat himself in this test. Bumrah showed full confidence in the skills of this young player and saved India from follow-on by batting intelligently with both of them.
By the end of the fourth day’s play, India had scored 252 runs for 9 wickets. Even though Team India is still 193 runs behind Australia in this Test, but when Bumrah and Akashdeep saved the follow-on, the joy of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Gautam Gambhir in the dressing room was such that it seemed as if India had won the match.
Akashdeep returned unbeaten after scoring 27 runs in 31 balls. Two fours and a six came from his bat. Whereas Jasprit Bumrah returned unbeaten on 10 runs in 27 balls. Bumrah also hit a brilliant six on Cummins. Seeing the batting of these two, it did not seem that the players at number 10 and 11 were batting. It would not be wrong to say that both of them have given such a wound to the Kangaroos, which they will remember for years.
