Mumbai Indians and India pacer Jasprit Bumrah is in a league of his own. The speedster is quickly making gains in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 top wicket-takers' charts, while also turning the season around for MI since his return to the T20 league. Bumrah missed the first few matches of the franchise, but since his return, not much has gone wrong for the Hardik Pandya-led side. In fact, MI have won 6 of the last 7 matches that Bumrah has been a part of.
The consistency with which Bumrah bowls terrifies every single opponent. His talent, coupled with the approach towards the game, truly makes him an elite athlete, that arguably no one can match in the game at present. This is the reason Australian cricket great Adam Gilchrist decided to draw comparisons between Bumrah and the GOAT Sir Donald Bradman.
"He's maybe the best bowler, fast bowler of all time. When you start stacking up the statistics and the varying conditions that he has to go out and execute those skills in, I guess you look at Sir Donald Bradman's numbers compared to his peers and he's just so far ahead, so I think Bumrah is sort of in that category across all the different variations that you get in conditions and pitches that you've got to bowl on. He's significantly further ahead than the peers around him, so that tells you we are truly watching greatness," Gilchrist said during a discussion on Cricbuzz.
Gilchrist was even asked if the Australians were ever intimidated by an Indian pacer in the past, the way they were in the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy. His answer was a clear no.
"A seamer from India, consistently throughout, particularly the series that we just saw in the summer, back home in the Australian summer, no, I don't think so,"
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