Jasprit Bumrah unveiled his magic and produced a trick that Sri Lankan batter Charith Asalanka failed to decipher on Day 3 of the Mohali Test this Sunday (March 6). The Indian ace quick delivered another fine spell and eventually got his man to give his team a crucial breakthrough. But it is not so much […]
Jasprit Bumrah unveiled his magic and produced a trick that Sri Lankan batter Charith Asalanka failed to decipher on Day 3 of the Mohali Test this Sunday (March 6).
The Indian ace quick delivered another fine spell and eventually got his man to give his team a crucial breakthrough. But it is not so much the wicket but the mastery involved that caught everyone’s eyes.
Bumrah overcame a well-set Asalanka in the game of smarts and execution by completing doing him in with a well-disguised slower ball.
The pacer came around the wicket to the left-hander and got him beaten on the outside edge after pitching it in line with the middle stump.
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The wicket arrived on the final ball of the 62nd over in the Sri Lankan first-innings in Mohali. Till that point, Asalanka and his partner Pathum Nissanka had stitched a decent partnership of 58 runs and made a good feast of keeping a robust and ever-threatening Indian attack at bay at the start of Day 3.
India needed a wicket to regain ascendancy. And to deliver the sucker punch, skipper Rohit Sharma looked towards Jasprit Bumrah, who got into his act straightaway and gave his team the breakthrough.
The set-up for the wicket began with successive balls thundering into Asalanka at speeds in excess of 140 kmph. Once Asalanka had fallen into the trap, Bumrah delivered the wicket ball, which dipped in speed by nearly 20 kmph from the first ball of the over.
The ball gripped and turned on the relatively flat deck used in Mohali and evaded Asalanka’s downswing to hit his back pad plumb infront of the stumps.
The on-field umpire remained unmoved, presuming the ball had sailed over the stumps but Rohit & company sent the matter upstairs and got their much-deserved breakthrough thanks to the DRS.
Twitter user going by the handle @TheCricketArk was quick to spot how the slower nature of the sixth ball played a major role in DRS tilting India’s way in this instance.
Jasprit Bumrah’s Slower Ball Magic.
Had it been a normal Paced Delivery it would’ve gone over the stumps. But bcoz it was an Off Cutter it didn’t bounce as much(sometimes it does though)
And Asalanka naturally got beaten on Pace & line, as it turned. pic.twitter.com/4lKbXz0ynL— Ash (@TheCricketArk) March 6, 2022
In a shrewd observation, the Twitter user highlighted had Jasprit Bumrah delivered this ball at the same speed as he had earlier in the over, the ball would’ve carried on with greater pace and bounce from the track and gone over the stumps. Since it was a slower ball, the delivery from Bumrah hit Asalanka midway on the stumps in the predicted hawkeye path.
