"One Bad Game Can...": Rohit Sharma's Honest Verdict On Jasprit Bumrah's Form

28.09.2023 - 02:57 sports.ndtv.com

Jasprit Bumrah was the pick of the Indian cricket team bowlers with three wickets during the third ODI match against Australia in Rajkot on Wednesday.

The fast bowler ended up on the losing side but his performance was a huge boost for India ahead of the Cricket World Cup 2023.

Skipper Rohit Sharma was quite happy with how Bumrah performed and said that the fast bowler is felling well both physically and mentally.

Bumrah was out for quite some time with injury but his return has been a huge positive for the Indian cricket team and Rohit made it clear that one bad game will not affect him. "I'm pretty happy, more importantly how he (Bumrah) feels body-wise, he has got so much skill, one bad game can happen to anyone.

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Team India maintained their dominance over arch-rivals Pakistan in the ODI World Cup as they defeated the Babar Azam-led side by seven wickets on Saturday. Opting to bowl, the hosts bundled out Pakistan for 191 with the entire bowling unit contributing equally. Later, skipper Rohit Sharma-led from the front and played a brilliant knock of 86 runs as India chased down the target in 30.3 overs, with seven wickets in hand. With this win, Team India has taken the top spot in the points table with three wins in as many matches.

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This is a complete dominance from India. Of the game, be it bowling, be it fielding, be it batting. This is an incredible win for India, a fissile win for India. To show that the gap between both these teams is getting bigger and for India to dominate like this in a high-pressure game was just wonderful to watch. Yes, one can say that Pakistan's performance was a disappointing one (considering the match-up). Except for that T20 encounter in Dubai which Pakistan won against India in an ICC event over the past several years and also I think it happened in the Champions Trophy final in 2017 that Pakistan was able to beat India. Otherwise, India have dominated in all these ICC events, whether it is a World Cup T20 or One Day World Cup.

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