Jasprit Bumrah sweats hard while training ahead of T20 World Cup
Team India star pacer Jasprit Bumrah has started preparing for the upcoming T20I series against Australia slated to start on September 20. It must be noted that Bumrah had missed the recently concluded Asia Cup due to a back injury.
In a video posted from the official Instagram handle of Bumrah, the right-arm pacer can be seen bowling in the nets apart from lifting weights in the gym. The video has already got more than 200K likes (at the time of writing).
Work and you’ll get what you need, work hard and you’ll get what you want: Jasprit Bumrah
As mentioned above, the express pacer is set to make his return to the Indian team in a three-match T20I series against the World T20 defending champions Australia. The first match of the series will be played on September 20 (Tuesday).
Talking about Bumrah’s numbers in the T20 format, the right-arm pacer has played 58 matches and has scalped 69 wickets so far at an average of 19.46. Bumrah is quite economical as well, bowling at an economy rate of 6.46. He has also scalped 128 and 121 wickets in Test and ODI formats respectively.
Talking about the T20I series against Australia, the series between India and Australia will be played from September 20 to September 25 in Mohali, Nagpur, and Hyderabad, respectively. Meanwhile, both teams have already announced their squads for the fixture and it is going to be an exciting contest between two strong-looking teams.
India Squad: Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (wk), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Hardik Pandya, R. Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohd. Shami, Harshal Patel, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah
Australia Squad: Aaron Finch (c), Sean Abbott, Ashton Agar, Pat Cummins, Tim David, Nathan Ellis, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Josh Inglis, Glenn Maxwell, Kane Richardson, Daniel Sams, Steve Smith, Matthew Wade (wk), Adam Zampa.