‘T20 World Cup win comes first’: Jasprit Bumrah after successful ICC high honour | Cricket Information – The Instances of India
Jasprit Bumrah expressed his gratitude after being honored with the distinguished ICC Males’s Cricketer of the Yr award, emphasizing that his workforce’s success will at all times stay his high precedence. He described India’s T20 World Cup victory as his most treasured second of 2024.
The 31-year-old quick bowler obtained the Sir Garfield Sobers Award on Tuesday, following a unprecedented 12 months the place he delivered “a masterclass in talent, precision, and relentless consistency” throughout all codecs of the sport.
Bumrah’s excellent performances additionally earned him the ICC Take a look at Cricketer of the Yr title on Monday, together with a spot within the Take a look at Staff of the Yr introduced final week.
“I really feel actually good. As a teenager, I’ve seen my childhood heroes successful this nice award, so yeah, very completely happy to be on the ‘receiving finish’,” Bumrah cheekily instructed broadcasters.
Nonetheless, the Indian tempo spearhead emphasised that workforce victories will at all times be his high precedence.
“So successful the T20 World Cup was actually particular, and the reminiscences that we made after which might be going to be near me endlessly,” mentioned Bumrah, who performed a pivotal position in India’s T20 World Cup marketing campaign within the Americas, selecting up 15 wickets at an astonishing common of 8.26 and an economic system of simply 4.17, main India to the title.
“So I’ll at all times choose us successful the T20 World Cup first.”
Bumrah’s constant performances throughout codecs additionally made him the fifth Indian cricketer to obtain the ICC Males’s Cricketer of the Yr Award. The earlier Indian recipients of this honour are Rahul Dravid (2004), Sachin Tendulkar (2010), Ravichandran Ashwin (2016), and Virat Kohli (2017, 2018).
“It feels actually good to get honours from the legends of the sport, however I at all times take issues with a pinch of salt,” Bumrah mentioned.
“I am very proud of the honour, however I do not let myself get too excessive. My ft are on the bottom, and I am actually proud of the accolades that I get.”
Within the Take a look at format, Bumrah concluded 2024 with a powerful 71 wickets in simply 13 matches at a median of 14.92, making it the second-best efficiency by a quick bowler in a calendar 12 months, behind former India captain Kapil Dev’s 100 wickets in 1983. The appropriate-arm pacer was in chic kind in the course of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia, the place he picked up 32 wickets in 5 Checks.
Though India fell wanting qualifying for the ultimate of the 2023-25 World Take a look at Championship, Bumrah’s contributions had been essential, with 77 wickets considerably boosting India’s factors tally.
Reflecting on his most memorable moments, Bumrah highlighted the dismissal of Ollie Pope in the course of the Take a look at collection towards England as notably particular.
“I have been very completely happy to play plenty of Take a look at cricket this 12 months, and plenty of wickets have been particular. However the one which I took towards England at Vizag, the Ollie Pope, was actually particular as a result of that modified the momentum and every thing,” he mentioned.
