Jasprit Bumrah has been hailed as one of the most versatile bowlers with a plethora of variations in his armoury to trouble any batsmen in international cricket. Out of all the variations, Bumrah’s yorker seems to stand out as he continues to torment batsmen with his accuracy and variations.
The 25-year-old has now revealed the secret to his accurate and toe-crushing yorkers which have troubled the batsmen in all formats of the game. The ace Indian seamer has credited tennis ball cricket for his pinpoint accuracy.
“As a kid, I played a lot of tennis ball cricket and with the tennis ball, you can bowl only one kind of a delivery. There’s the length in question, no bouncers. There’s only one ball that you have to practise. At that time, I played for fun. But later, when you start playing serious cricket, you realise the importance of that delivery,” Bumrah told Times of India.
“But not that because it naturally comes to me, I don’t have to keep practising it. It still takes the same amount of hard work to get it right in a match situation. I do spend enough hours now trying to get all the little things correct. The line, the length, the bounce. The game now actively involves playing three formats that are very different from each other. So, there’s constant work to be done to stay in tune with each of them,” Bumrah added.
Bumrah was rested from the entire New Zealand tour, which got recently concluded. India won the five-match ODI series 4-1, while tasting 2-1 defeat in the three-match T20I series
