Jasprit Bumrah's bowling reminds VVS Laxman of the former Pakistan bowler

Jasprit Bumrah is being tipped as the biggest find of the Indian cricket in the longest format of the game this year. He made his debut in South Africa tour this year and as 2018 is ending, the fast bowler has become the leader of the attack. It has taken only nine Test matches for him to rise to the glory and VVS Laxman can’t stop praising him. The former Indian cricketer has also compared Bumrah with the former Pakistan bowler for the variations he possesses.

Bumrah is currently the leading wicket-taker of the series with 20 scalps to his name after three Test matches and he picked nine of them in Melbourne. More than anything, his slower yorker to dismiss Shaun Marsh in the first innings at the stroke of lunch has been the talk of the town from the last couple of days. He also bowled with similar menace in Perth but was unlucky not to get wickets. However, the cricketer made amends in the most important game of the series.

“What I liked was not even once did he lose control, or did he look as if he was ineffective. That shows on how much he has worked hard on his fitness, how skilful he is, and how much control he has got with his bowling,” Laxman said while speaking to ESPNCricinfo about India’s fast-rising superstar.

Laxman compares Bumrah with a legend

VVS Laxman also went on to say that Jasprit Bumrah’s bowling reminds him of the legendary cricketer Wasim Akram. He is impressed with the way he controls his variations and it is similar to Wasim who invented reverse swing during his heydays in the early 1990s.

“He almost reminds me of Wasim Akram. For me, Wasim Akram was the toughest bowler I have faced because of the amount of variations he had and the control he had over those variations. Bumrah has got those variations just like Wasim had,” the 44-year-old added.

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