Jasprit Bumrah

[Burgey]

Imran. And the better captain. And the better bowler. And the better bat

Imran wasn’t a better bowler than Cummins. Come on ffs

 

[Burgey]

Murali in 2006 was obscene. Ridiculous stuff.

His action certainly was

 

[Daemon]

Imran wasn’t a better bowler than Cummins. Come on ffs

Eh, he was imo. Cummins might pull ahead but not yet.

 

[Spark]

I've seen people earnestly express the opinion that Tim May was better than Lyon is, when he just wasn't. You can only reason so much.

I've seen "Harbhajan was better than Ashwin" on this forum. You can't account for taste

 

[HouHsiaoHsien]

Imran wasn’t a better bowler than Cummins. Come on ffs

He was. Cummins can end up better tho

 

[govinda indian fan]

Bumarah @ 907 points in icc ranking. Needs to cross 914 to alltime highest peak hopefully fingers crossed

 

[Swamp Witch Hattie]

Bumrah's ICC Test bowling rankings and ratings:

(I've marked some notable numbers on the graphs)

 

[Swamp Witch Hattie]

Even though it's early days, I thought it might be interesting to compare Bumrah's Peak-33 with past bowling greats. This is, of course, unfair to Bumrah whose career is not yet over. He is in the middle of a purple patch and his Peak-33 might improve with time. Given that he has had a stupendous series against Australia, I'm guessing that Bumrah's Peak-33 would probably be his last 33 Tests so from Tests 12 to 44 (please correct me if this is wrong). Note that a bowler's Peak-33 is not the consecutive 33 Tests which produce the lowest average but rather (by how I have seen it defined), the consecutive 33 Tests which result in the most wickets taken.

Anyway, for Bumrah:



Past bowling greats' Peak-33:



Note that the ordering in the last table is not entirely logical as it is based on average whereas Peak-33 is based on number of wickets taken so ordering according to this stat might have been better. It's a bit like having a list of the tallest people and ordering according to weight. Yes, there's a positive correlation there but the list is supposed to be about height!

Note also that, at this point, Imran, Murali, Marshall, Hadlee and Ambrose all have, for their Peak-33s, more wickets taken, a better average, more fifers and (@Coronis' eyes will be glistening at this), more tenfers.

I thought it would also be interesting to compare these bowlers' availability throughout their Peak-33 periods, where

Availability = 33/number of Tests played by bowler's country during this time

Availability Percentages for Peak-33 Periods:

Bumrah: 33/54 = 61.1%

Imran: 33/53 = 62.3%

Murali: 33/39 = 84.6%

Marshall: 33/39 = 84.6%

Hadlee: 33/36 = 91.7%

Ambrose: 33/36 = 91.7%

You can see that Bumrah has worse availability than the others (although Imran is not much better). What is strange is that the first two (Bumrah and Imran) have almost the same numbers, the next two do have exactly the same numbers as do the next two!!! Weird!

Further observation: Bumrah's Peak-33 produced 148 wickets in his last 33 Tests so he took 55 wickets in his first 11 Tests, i.e. 5 WPM! Bumrah's Test career really did start off with a hiss and a roar! I thought I better go through the various 33-Test possibilities for wickets taken in case there was a better Peak-33:

Tests 1-33: 146 wickets

Tests 2-34: 151 (my God, it could be this!!!)

Tests 3-35: 150

Tests 4-36: 145

Tests 5-37: 143

Tests 6-38: 145

Tests 7-39: 145

Tests 8-40: 139

Tests 9-41: 142

Tests 10-42: 137

Tests 11-43: 145

Tests 12-44: 148 (as before)

Well, well, well, I screwed up. OK, Bumrah's correct Peak-33 was from Tests 2-34 (unless I've messed up again) and is as follows:



Incredibly, this bypasses Bumrah's amazing current campaign against Australia. I'll post Tests 12-44 again for easy visual comparison:



Bumrah's availability for his corrected Peak-33 now changes to 33/57 = 57.9%.

The previous conclusions have not changed when comparing Bumrah to the others, except he is now equal with Ambrose in fifers (10).

 

[Coronis]

Love to see Davidson’s name up there. I believe that would be roughly his final 33 tests and when he started getting the new ball after Miller retired.

 

[Swamp Witch Hattie]

Love to see Davidson’s name up there. I believe that would be roughly his final 33 tests and when he started getting the new ball after Miller retired.

I looked it up: it was exactly his final 33 Tests (12-44). Well done you!

BTW: thank you! I'm not a mind reader but your post might have been a subtle reminder to me that since I corrected Bumrah's Peak-33 to



that we now additionally have Davidson (and Waqar) bettering Bumrah in number of wickets, average, fifers and, most importantly, tenfers. Pollock also now has Bumrah beaten in number of wickets and average but has one fewer fifer and shares with Bumrah the ignominy of 0 tenfers.

I'll do an availability calculation for these three new bowlers' Peak-33s:

Davidson: 33/35 = 94.3% (!)

Waqar: 33/40 = 82.5%

Pollock: 33/34 = 97.1% (!!)

All better than Bumrah who needs to get his act together if he wants to be favourably compared to these other greats. He's going to end up being ranked alongside Bob Willis (no disgrace in that) who also couldn't buy a tenfer.

 

[Swamp Witch Hattie]

Bumrah's extra workload:

First 40 Tests:



Aggregate bowling:



100.3 balls/innings

193.1 balls/match

22.9% of India's bowling

Four Tests in Australia (Tests 41-44):



Aggregate bowling:



106 balls/innings (up 5.7%)

212 balls/match (up 9.8%)

26.1% of India's bowling (up 14%)

This analysis has not taken time into account (as in hours and minutes). It's possible that Bumrah's extra workload has occurred over a shorter period of time, making it harder than the figures might at first suggest.

 

[stephen]

Funniest post ive read this week. On reddit, someone said: If i was a selector i would pick two specialist bowlers to bowl 40 overs + together- Jasprit bumrah- and a new fast bowler called Basprit Jumrah

Reddit copying my jokes.

 

[stephen]

And I quote:

Tbf if I was captaining India Bumrah would have bowled an unbroken 42 over spell. Meanwhile, a new player, Basprit Jumrah would be bowling from the other end.

 

[halba]

And I quote:

Yep reddit copied the joke. Good one.

 

[Coronis]

Bumrah's extra workload:

First 40 Tests:

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Aggregate bowling:

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100.3 balls/innings

193.1 balls/match

22.9% of India's bowling

Four Tests in Australia (Tests 41-44):

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Aggregate bowling:

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106 balls/innings (up 5.7%)

212 balls/match (up 9.8%)

26.1% of India's bowling (up 14%)

This analysis has not taken time into account (as in hours and minutes). It's possible that Bumrah's extra workload has occurred over a shorter period of time, making it harder than the figures might at first suggest.

Pfft 17.3 overs an innings isn’t a high workload at all.

 

[Bahnz]

At this point, You could take Bumrah to your local park, ask him to pick 10 random guys to play with, and I'd back the team he picks a better chance of winning a test in Australia than any India team without Bumrah in it.

What an absolute lion of a man, this is a tour that belongs in the fast bowlers pantheon: Larwood '33; Tyson '54; Holding '79; Hadlee '85; Bumrah '24

 

[Coronis]

At this point, You could take Bumrah to your local park, ask him to pick 10 random guys to play with, and I'd back the team he picks a better chance of winning a test in Australia than any India team without Bumrah in it.

What an absolute lion of a man, this is a tour that belongs in the fast bowlers pantheon: Larwood '33; Tyson '54; Holding '79; Hadlee '85; Bumrah '24

Think you missed a couple

 

[HouHsiaoHsien]

At this point, You could take Bumrah to your local park, ask him to pick 10 random guys to play with, and I'd back the team he picks a better chance of winning a test in Australia than any India team without Bumrah in it.

What an absolute lion of a man, this is a tour that belongs in the fast bowlers pantheon: Larwood '33; Tyson '54; Holding '79; Hadlee '85; Bumrah '24

Ambrose 92

 

[Swamp Witch Hattie]

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[SillyCowCorner1]

I’m not clicking on any of those hyperlinks