Leading Indian seam bowler Jasprit Bumrah is set to captain India during the first Test match. The 30-year-old will lead the side against Pat Cummins' led Australia at Perth on Friday. Rohit Sharma is confirmed to miss the game and the 37-year-old will be watching the game from the sidelines as per sources.
This will be the second time that Bumrah will lead the Indian cricket team in the longest format of the game. His captaincy debut came during the rescheduled fifth Test match against England that was played in 2022. India were originally set to play 5 Test matches during the 2021 tour of England but the final Test match in Manchester was called off.
It was decided that the final Test match will be played in 2022 with Edgbaston hosting the game. Rohit Sharma who had become India’s Test captain that year had missed the game as he had tested positive for COVID.
Jasprit Bumrah’s Test captaincy debut ends in defeat
Ben Stokes won the toss and inserted Jasprit Bumrah leading the Indian side into bat. The visitors were reduced to 98/5 with James Anderson and Matthew Potts running riot. Cheteshwar Pujara and Shubman Gill opened the batting and added 27 runs for the opening wicket.
Anderson dismissed India’s openers before Potts got the wickets of Hanuma Vihari for 20 and Virat Kohli for 11. Shreyas Iyer scored a brisk 15 runs before he was caught by Sam Billings to give Anderson his third wicket. Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja then added 222 runs for the 6th wicket with Pant scoring 146 and Jadeja scoring 104.
On this day Rishabh Pant was at his attacking best in the fifth Test against England, smashing 146 in only 111 balls to rescue India from a tricky position pic.twitter.com/XHKTPVPxBC
— Best Of Batters (@BestOfBatters) July 1, 2024
Bumrah also created history when he scored 35 runs off a single over from Stuart Broad. This broke the previous record of 28 runs scored by Brian Lara during the Test match against South Africa. Team India were bowled out for 416 in their first innings and had reduced the hosts to 83/5 in their reply.
World record alert: 35 runs in a single over - Bumrah is the hero. pic.twitter.com/B43Ic5T9mD
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) July 2, 2022
Alex Lees, Zak Crawley, and Ollie Pope were dismissed by Jasprit Bumrah to leave England reeling. Mohammed Shami and Siraj then had the big wickets of Joe Root and Leach to further steady India’s grip. Jonny Bairstow scored a gritty 106 runs as England were bowled out for 284 to give India a huge lead of 132 runs. Mohammed Siraj was the best bowler with 4/66 from 11.3 overs.
In the 2nd innings, India was bowled out for 245 as Pujara scored 66 with the bat and Rishabh Pant scored yet another fifty. Ben Stokes was the best bowler for the home team with 4/33 from his 11.5 overs which included the big scalps of Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja.
Chasing 378 to win, England playing their Baz-Ball brand of cricket coasted to an easy 7- wicket win. Indian skipper Jasprit Bumrah dismissed Zak Crawley for 46 and followed it up with the wicket of Ollie Pope for a duck. Alex Lees was run out for 56 with the score reading 109/3 to put India in the driver’s seat. Joe Root (142 not out) and Jonny Bairstow’s second ton in the game saw the home team win the game. The Yorkshire lads added 269 unbroken runs for the 4th wicket in 52.3 overs to achieve a famous run chase.