Mumbai Indians and India fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah are standing out this season. He’s climbing the list of top wicket-takers in IPL 2025 and has played a big role in turning things around for MI. Bumrah missed the start of the season, but since he returned, things have gone well for the team. Under Hardik Pandya’s captaincy, MI have won 6 of the last 7 matches with Bumrah in the lineup.
Adam Gilchrist Compares Jasprit Bumrah to the Legendary Sir Donald Bradman
Jasprit Bumrah’s consistent and deadly bowling leaves opponents worried every time. His skill and mindset make him one of the best in the game today. That’s why Australian legend Adam Gilchrist compared Bumrah to the greatest of all time, Sir Donald Bradman.
During a discussion on Cricbuzz, Gilchrist said: “He’s maybe the best bowler, fast bowler of all time. When you start stacking up the statistics and the varying conditions that he has to go out and execute those skills in, I guess you look at Sir Donald Bradman’s numbers compared to his peers and he’s just so far ahead, so I think Bumrah is sort of in that category across all the different variations that you get in conditions and pitches that you’ve got to bowl on. He’s significantly further ahead than the peers around him, so that tells you we are truly watching greatness.”
Bumrah’s Impact on the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25
When asked if Australian players had ever felt intimidated by an Indian fast bowler like they did during the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Adam Gilchrist gave a clear answer: no, never before.
When asked if Australian players had ever been as intimidated by an Indian fast bowler as they were by Jasprit Bumrah during the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Adam Gilchrist responded clearly:
“A seamer from India, consistently throughout, particularly the series that we just saw in the summer, back home in the Australian summer, no, I don’t think so,” Gilchrist said.
Former Indian spinner Murali Kartik, who was also part of the panel discussion on Thursday, praised Bumrah, calling him a “national treasure” for the country.
“He’s a national treasure, I think at the moment for us a lot, whoever follows cricket and wants India to do well, during the BGT, I think all of us were wishing that he could bowl from both ends. India looked a different side and he looked a different bowler against Australia, he is, look, one of the things which I felt with Bumrah over the period of time is that he acclimatises to any pitch very quickly and I think many bowlers have a certain length that they bowl, but he doesn’t have a certain length, he bowls the length which is required on that surface and that’s his greatness, the oddity of his action,” he said.
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