Rarely in the world of fast bowling is there poetic justice. Cruelly denied Ben Duckett's scalp, Jasprit Bumrah was frustrated. But he channelised that energy into what he does best - bowling with venom and bamboozling opposition batters. Duckett was beaten all ends up and clean bowled by a Bumrah special as England lost their second wicket in their second innings against India during the first Test, Day 3 in Hyderabad. (Match Blog | Streaming)
Bumrah had trapped Duckett in front in the 17th over with a ball that cut back in sharply. But the umpire gave it not out and India wicket-keeper KS Bharat convinced skipper Rohit Sharma not to review the decision. Replays later showed that ball-tracking had the ball crashing into leg stump, and the decision would have been overturned to out, had it been reviewed.
Bumrah threw his hands up in anger as he saw it on the big screen. Duckett was showing aggressive intent and trying to wipe off the deficit with the now-famous 'Bazball' approach. Dislodging him then in a spin-friendly track would have been another feather in the Indian pace spearhead's cap. But it was not to be.
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Nevertheless, Bumrah came back with a vengeance in his next over, uprooting Duckett's off stump with a beauty that came in with the angle and thoroughly beat Duckett's attempted booming drive through the covers. Fiev balls later, Bumrah had his man. And boy, was he pumped. Watch the video below and gauge for yourself.
He didn't just stop there. Bumrah returned in the 21st over and sent back English batting mainstay Joe Root for 2 with a fabulous in-dipper that hit the latter's front leg near the knee roll. With that, Bumrah brought India right back on top after a temporary phase of the visitors calling the shots.
India had earlier scored a strong total of 436, powered by Ravindra Jadeja, KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal's top knocks, in reply to England's 246.
