Why Jasprit Bumrah likes to poke his teammates to speed things up on the field
Bumrah’s yorkers provide painful pedicures to batsmen.
By Akshay Sawai, ET Bureau |
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Jasprit Bumrah on why he likes to poke his teammates to speed things up on the field.
Jasprit Bumrah’s yorkers provide painful pedicures to batsmen. The 25-year-old is also not shy to slip verbal bouncers at senior colleagues like Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami when their bowling is not waking up the speed gun.
“Engine garam karlo!” is Bumrah’s pet phrase when he wants to fire up his World Cup teammates, it was revealed at a recent cricket awards function in Mumbai.
“I’m always watching the speed gun,” Bumrah said. “During Test matches, we need some motivation going on . Whenever the speed gun shows they are bowling slow, I’m behind both of them that they have to keep going.”
Rohit Sharma, Bumrah’s teammate in the India and Mumbai Indians dressing room, said that bowlers were now in the habit of checking the speed gun after every delivery.
“This has become a trend in the fast bowling group,” Sharma said. “They bowl and immediately look at the screen. There is healthy competition.”
But Bumrah said Ishant Sharma and Shami were the bosses of the art of giving each other lip. “When they go at each other, it’s a sight,” said Bumrah.
Do not be offended if the motivational sparring spills over from the Test arena into the World Cup.
Jasprit Bumrah’s yorkers provide painful pedicures to batsmen. The 25-year-old is also not shy to slip verbal bouncers at senior colleagues like Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami when their bowling is not waking up the speed gun.
“Engine garam karlo!” is Bumrah’s pet phrase when he wants to fire up his World Cup teammates, it was revealed at a recent cricket awards function in Mumbai.
“I’m always watching the speed gun,” Bumrah said. “During Test matches, we need some motivation going on . Whenever the speed gun shows they are bowling slow, I’m behind both of them that they have to keep going.”
Rohit Sharma, Bumrah’s teammate in the India and Mumbai Indians dressing room, said that bowlers were now in the habit of checking the speed gun after every delivery.
“This has become a trend in the fast bowling group,” Sharma said. “They bowl and immediately look at the screen. There is healthy competition.”
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But Bumrah said Ishant Sharma and Shami were the bosses of the art of giving each other lip. “When they go at each other, it’s a sight,” said Bumrah.
Do not be offended if the motivational sparring spills over from the Test arena into the World Cup.
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