‘Mentality Monster’ Jasprit Bumrah reached new heights in world cricket as he scaled the No. 1 place within the ICC Check rankings for bowlers. Bumrah dethroned his personal teammate Ravichandran Ashwin to make the highest spot his personal. Within the course of, the marquee pacer additionally turned 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. Whereas a complete of three gamers have carried out so in rankings for batters, no bowler had ever managed to take action earlier than Bumrah.

Cricket, Not Simply A Batter’s World

Cricket, within the trendy sport, has turn into a batter’s world, with subject restrictions changing into trickier and bowlers being penalised for the smallest of errors in an period of leisure. However, even in a sport the place batters make headlines most of the time, Bumrah turned 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 opposite two batters to have carried out 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. 

However, 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. Although one can argue that the likes of Glenn McGrath, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, and so on. did not get to play within the T20 period, what Bumrah is doing at instances when cricket has turn into so demanding, reveals the extent of labor he has put into himself to be this versatile.

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

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

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

Bumrah was on the no. 3 spot earlier than the match started and moved to the highest of the rankings, forsaking Ravichandran Ashwin who had occupied the highest spot since March final 12 months.

Earlier than reaching the summit, the 30-year-old Bumrah had by no means even managed to assert the No. 2 spot in Check rating charts, all due to India’s spin-dominant pitches. However, just lately he bagged two 5-wicket-hauls.

These fifers got here in 2024, with the primary one got here in opposition to South Africa in Cape City in January, the place he claimed 6/61 and the second in Vizag when he produced figures of 6/45 in his latest look in opposition to England.

Jasprit Bumrah, Really Limitless

Each time a Check match in India is being talked about, the probabilities of bowlers rising as prime wicket-takers stay near none. Bumrah, together with his 9 wickets within the Vizag Check, 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 turned the primary quick bowler from the nation to be topped No. 1 Check bowler on this planet. In terms of spinners, the likes of R Ashwin, Bishen Singh Bedi and Anil Kumble had achieved the feat earlier than.