Jasprit Bumrah and Yuzvendra Chahal have been the two bankable bowlers for Virat Kohli in recent times, and the decider games against the Kiwis in ODIs and T20Is are a few samples of that, to reflect on. Speaking on the duo, the former Indian captain, Sunil Gavaskar opines both bowlers are ready for the longer format.
Gavaskar was all in praise for the duo, who were the products of IPL, where the journey started for both bowlers. Gavaskar was more detailed about explaining, on how the duo used the IPL experience, to bowl for a particular batsman.
“They were fantastic. They have been absolutely terrific. They had brought all their IPL experience into play, they know exactly where to bowl, to which batsman what line to bowl, what deliveries to bowl and yes, there will be that odd over when they will go for runs but they come so strongly. That tells you about their (Bumrah and Chahal) big heart as well. Take punishment and then to come back and bowl deadly overs,” quoted Sunil Gavaskar to NDTV.
While Gavaskar was optimistic about the duo making it into the Test side, as both possess the attributes to be successful in the longer format. With the overseas tours lining up like South Africa, Australia, and England Gavaskar feels the duo are ready for the next challenge.
“Both these bowlers have been quite outstanding and I do believe that the way they are bowling they should also be considered for the red ball format which is the Test format. Particularly, I think both of them. Bumrah for example, you know in South Africa, Australia and England he will be quite a handful with the pace and with the accuracy that he has and Chahal as well, the way he has been tossing the ball up to the odd batsman, getting the ball to turn and grip, I think both of them are ready for red ball cricket,” Gavaskar conceded
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