IND vs AUS Sydney Test: Jasprit Bumrah is the deadly bowler of Team India. He has performed amazingly in the current Border-Gavaskar series. Bumrah is currently on top in terms of taking most wickets in this series. Now he has a chance to break a big record. Bumrah has become the bowler taking the most wickets in a Test series for India. But for this he will have to perform brilliantly in the Sydney Test against Australia.
Bumrah has taken 30 wickets in 4 matches of the ongoing Test series between India and Australia. He is on top in terms of taking wickets in the series. Australian bowler Pat Cummins is at number two. Currently there is a gap of 10 wickets between Cummins and Bumrah. Cummins has taken 20 wickets in 4 matches. While Mohammad Siraj has taken 16 wickets. Now Bumrah is close to creating history.
Bumrah can break the record of most wickets in a series –
Actually, the record of taking most wickets in a Test series from India is held in the name of BS Chandrashekhar. He took 35 wickets in the 5-match series played in 1972-73. Vinoo Mankad and Subhash Gupte are at second place in this list. Both of them had taken 34-34 wickets. Now Bumrah can leave all of them behind. For this, Bumrah will have to take 6 wickets in the last match of the Test series. If Bumrah takes 6 wickets, he will break the 52 year old record.
Indian bowler taking most wickets in a test series –
- BS Chandrasekhar – 35 wickets in 5 Tests, England tour of India, 1972-73
- Vinoo Mankad – 34 wickets in 5 Tests, England tour of India, 1951-52
- Subhash Gupte – 34 wickets in 5 Tests, New Zealand tour of India, 1955-56
- Kapil Dev – 32 wickets in 6 Tests, Pakistan tour of India, 1979-80
- Harbhajan Singh – 32 wickets in 3 Tests, India tour of Australia, 2000-01
- Ravichandran Ashwin – 32 wickets in 4 Tests, England tour of India, 2020-21
- Bishan Singh Bedi – 31 wickets in 5 Tests, India’s tour of Australia, 1977-78
- Ravichandran Ashwin – 31 wickets in 4 Tests, South Africa tour of India, 2015-16
- Jasprit Bumrah – 30 wickets in 4 Tests, India tour of Australia, 2024-25
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