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On 27 January, ICC announced the best male test cricketer of the year. This award has been won by Jasprit Bumra. He has been voted ICC Men Test Cricketer of the Year. In the year 2024, Jasprit Bumrah performed brilliantly.
Apart from England, New Zealand and Bangladesh, he also performed brilliantly against Australia. Now this player has left his mark in the ICC Awards.
Take 71 wickets in 13 matches
Bumrah is the highest wicket -taking bowler in 2024. He has left behind all the bowlers in the world with 71 wickets. He is followed by England bowler Gas Atkinson, who has taken 52 wickets. Bumrah threw 357 overs in 2024. During this, he scored runs at a great average of 2.96. Bumrah also became the fourth Indian bowler to take the highest wicket in a calendar year. He gave Kapil Dev, Anil Kumble and R.K. Following the footsteps of Ashwin, who has taken more than 70 wickets in a calendar year.
So far, 17 bowlers of the world have taken more than 70 wickets in a calendar year in the history of Test cricket. But out of these 17 bowlers, Bumrah has become the lowest average bowler.
Bumra’s great performance
Jasprit Bumrah played his first Test match against South Africa in early 2024. In both innings of this match, Bumrah took 8 wickets and made a great start of the year. After this, Bumrah took 19 wickets in the 5 -match Test series against England. India won the Test series 4–1 thanks to his strong performance.
Bumrah’s great performance was also seen during the Border Gavaskar Trophy played in Australia. In this series, this deadly bowler also took 200 wickets in Test format.
Bumrah’s career has been like this
Jasprit Bumrah has so far taken 205 wickets in 45 Tests for India. Apart from this, he has taken 149 wickets in 89 ODIs. While he has taken 89 wickets in 70 T20 matches.
