Jasprit Bumrah Most Test wickets on Australian Soil: The third Test match of Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 is being played at Gabba. The ongoing five-match Test series between India and Australia is tied at 1-1. In this difficult Test series, the Indian team seems to be lagging behind the Australian team in terms of form. But Indian team’s fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has wreaked havoc on Australia. He has broken the record of veteran captain Kapil Dev by bowling brilliantly so far against Australia. Apart from this, he has also become the Indian bowler who took the fastest Test wicket in Australia.
Jasprit Bumrah broke Kapil Dev’s record
In the second innings of the third Test match of Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25, Jasprit Bumrah breathed life into the match with his amazing bowling. In the second innings of the Gabba Test, he overtook Kapil Dev in the record of taking the highest and fastest Test wicket in Australia. Bumrah achieved this feat by taking the wicket of Usman Khawaja. Bumrah left behind Kapil Dev’s record of 51 wickets by taking the wicket of Australian batsman Usman Khawaja.
Indian bowler who took most wickets in Australia
| player | match | Turn | Wicket | average |
| Jasprit Bumrah | 10* | 20 | 53 | 17.15 |
| Kapil Dev | 11 | 21 | 51 | 24.58 |
| Anil Kumble | 10 | 18 | 49 | 37.73 |
| R Ashwin | 11* | 19 | 40 | 42.42 |
| Bishan Singh Bedi | 7 | 14 | 35 | 27.51 |
India’s most effective bowler in the series
Jasprit Bumrah has strengthened the Indian bowling attack in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. Till the third test match in the current series, he has taken 20 wickets and his average is 10.90. In the first innings of the Gabba Test, when other Indian bowlers were struggling for wickets, Bumrah put Australia in trouble by taking 6 wickets. After this, in the second innings, Bumrah forced Australia to kneel by taking 3 wickets. His performance proved to be a game changer for Team India.
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