Jasprit Bumrah Equals Kapil Dev For Monumental Feat In Indian Cricket With Fifer vs Australia

Indian pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah made history on Saturday, securing his seventh five-wicket haul in SENA (South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia) countries, tying with legendary Kapil Dev for most by an Indian bowler in aforementioned countries. Bumrah added yet another feather to his hat and added to his legacy as India's all-time great in SENA conditions during the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at Perth against Australia. India has a weak record in SENA countries historically and started improving their record in 2000s.

During the game, Bumrah bowled 18 overs and took five wickets for 30 runs at an economy rate of 1.67. He got crucial wickets of Nathan McSweeney, Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith, Alex Carey and skipper Pat Cummins.

Now in 27 Tests in SENA countries, Bumrah has got 118 wickets at an average of 22.55, with best figures of 6/33. he has taken a total of seven five-wicket hauls. He has tied with Kapil (7) and is followed by BS Chandrashekhar, Zaheer Khan (six five-wicket hauls) and Bishan Singh Bedi, Anil Kumble (five five-wicket hauls).

He is the only fifth Indian captain to have a five-wicket haul in Tests, besides Vinoo Mankad (one), Bishan (eight), Kapil (four) and Kumble (two). The last Indian captain to achieve this feat was Kumble (5/84) at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in 2007. Australia won that match by 337 runs.

Bumrah has had five-wicket hauls in Johannesburg, Melbourne, Nottingham, Northsound, Kingston, Capetown, Bengaluru, Vishakhapatnam and Perth, making him a marvellous all-condition bowler.

Coming to the match, India won the toss and opted to bat first.

India won the toss and opted to bat first. They lost wickets at regular intervals, with KL Rahul (26 in 74 balls,