When Harshit Rana got angry on the question asked on the absence of Jasprit Bumrah

News India Live, Digital Desk: When a young player steps on the cricket field, the burden of expectations is very heavy. Especially when you are put at the place where the world’s best bowler Jasprit Bumrah should have been. A similar pressure is being felt these days on emerging fast bowler Harshit Rana.

Recently, during a press conference, when a reporter asked Harshit a question about Bumrah’s absence and its impact, Harshit was seen losing his temper a bit. His blunt answer was “I do not know.”

Why did Harshit Rana get irritated?
If we look at it from a human perspective, it is not difficult to understand Harshit’s frustration. Whenever a new bowler comes to the team, reporters and fans start comparing him with the old legends. Every question comes back to the same “Bumrah is not there, so are you scared?” or “How will you fill their shoes?”

Harshit Rana wants to create his own identity. He has proved with his bowling so far that there is no dearth of pace and enthusiasm in him. In such a situation, taking Bumrah’s name again and again was perhaps making him feel that his own hard work was being ignored. Their saying “I don’t know” may not just be an answer, but also a sign of frustration.

Shadow of Bumrah and challenges of the new generation
Players like Jasprit Bumrah come once in a century. No one can replace him, and every new bowler knows this. But today’s world of social media and media keeps players in the fire of ‘comparison’ all the time. This style of Harshit Rana is probably an attempt to concentrate on his own bowling.

It is important for an emerging player not to play as someone’s replacement on the field, but to rely on his own skills.

Is this attitude right?
Harshit’s answer may seem a bit harsh to many people in the cricket world, but fast bowlers are identified by their aggression on the field. It is easy to bind Harshit in the ‘bad boy’ image, but we also have to understand that mentally it is not easy for a young man to handle such a big responsibility.