‘Mentality Monster’ Jasprit Bumrah reached new heights in world cricket as he scaled the No. 1 place within the ICC Test rankings for bowlers. Bumrah dethroned his personal teammate Ravichandran Ashwin to make the highest spot his personal. In the method, the marquee pacer additionally grew to become the primary bowler within the historical past of the sport to have claimed the No. 1 spot in all three codecs of the sport in some unspecified time in the future in his profession. While a complete of three gamers have completed so in rankings for batters, no bowler had ever managed to take action earlier than Bumrah.

Cricket, Not Just A Batter’s World

Cricket, within the fashionable sport, has develop into a batter’s world, with area restrictions changing into trickier and bowlers being penalised for the smallest of errors in an period of leisure. But, even in a sport the place batters make headlines as a rule, Bumrah grew to become the infiltrator to register a landmark that no bowler ever managed to earlier than.

From India, Virat Kohli is the one batter to have claimed the No. 1 spot within the ICC rankings in all three codecs earlier than. The different two batters to have completed so are Matthew Hayden and Ricky Ponting, each from Australia. In truth, Ponting is the one participant to be positioned on prime of the rating charts in all three codecs concurrently. 

But, what makes Bumrah particular is the truth that no bowler even got here near producing such brilliance in all three codecs of the sport as Bumrah did. Though one can argue that the likes of Glenn McGrath, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, and so forth. did not get to play within the T20 period, what Bumrah is doing at occasions when cricket has develop into so demanding, exhibits the extent of labor he has put into himself to be this versatile.

As Bumrah rose highest within the ICC Test rankings, your entire cricket world bowed, even those that had been criticising him for some time now. The veteran pacer let his emotions on the matter recognized himself.

Jasprit Bumrah’s Rise To No. 1 Spot In ICC Test Rankings

The International Cricket Council (ICC) issued the most recent Test rankings which noticed Bumrah be part of this elite listing after he produced mind-boggling figures of 9/91 throughout India’s series-levelling victory within the second Test at Vizag.

Bumrah was on the no. 3 spot earlier than the match started and moved to the highest of the rankings, abandoning Ravichandran Ashwin who had occupied the highest spot since March final yr.

Before reaching the summit, the 30-year-old Bumrah had by no means even managed to say the No. 2 spot in Test rating charts, all due to India’s spin-dominant pitches. But, not too long ago he bagged two 5-wicket-hauls.

Those fifers got here in 2024, with the primary one got here towards South Africa in Cape Town in January, the place he claimed 6/61 and the second in Vizag when he produced figures of 6/45 in his current look towards England.

Jasprit Bumrah, Truly Limitless

Whenever a Test match in India is being talked about, the possibilities of bowlers rising as prime wicket-takers stay near none. Bumrah, along with his 9 wickets within the Vizag Test, did not simply end the match as the highest wicket-taker but additionally grabbed the participant of the match award.

Courtesy of his heroics, the star pacer grew to become the primary quick bowler from the nation to be topped No. 1 Test bowler on this planet. When it involves spinners, the likes of R Ashwin, Bishen Singh Bedi and Anil Kumble had achieved the feat earlier than.