Delhi: Jasprit Bumrah started playing Test cricket in January 2018. Today, cricket pundits do not skimp in considering him as the number 1 fast bowler. With the last few Tests, especially in India, there is a lot of discussion that if Bumrah is in the Test team, then less Tests win and win more without them. Incidentally, the recently concluded Test series in England made this thinking more correct. In the 3 Tests in which Bumrah played, none of them won and the two, in which the attack should have weakened, the bowlers shone and both won the Tests. Is it really that does not win the test with Bumrah?

Bumrah played 76 Tests from Test debut to Oval against South Africa in 2018 and played Bumrah in 48 and has 219 wickets. Here we discuss those tests that won and live with Bumrah. Note some special facts:

• * 20 out of 48 Tests with Bumrah, 23 lost and 5 draw.
• * Bumrah won 110 wickets in these 20 Tests with 14.50 average and 2.70 economy rate.
• * In the winning Test from Bumrah’s debut, only Nathan Leon (184), Mitchell Starc (168), Pat Cummins (164), R Ashwin (155), Kagiso Rabada (151) and Stuart Broad (115) have taken more wickets. All of them won more Tests than Bumrah, so there are more wickets in his name, where Bumrah took an average of 5.5 wickets in the Test, and no one took wickets at an average of 5.
• * In the winning Test, no one recorded a low 14.50 average like Bumrah, but if we talk about the economy rate, then only Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja’s economy rate is the lowest 2.70 of the 100 wickets in the winning Test.

Looking at these records, can we say that India did not win Tests with Bumrah or not Bumrah match winner bowler? There is a big discussion about this record of the recently ended England series that Siraj took 16 wickets at an average of 19.8 without Bumrah, while who played with Bumrah with 3 Tests with Bumrah, at an average of 61.2, at an average of 61.2. So now let’s look at this record more closely. If you forget about the victory test, then Siraj has played 41 Tests so far,

• * Those who played with 25 Test Bumrah took 74 wickets, average 35.00, strike rate 57.39, economy rate 3.66, 5 wickets 1 time, best 6/15 (10 won, 11 haras, 4 draws, win percentage 40.00)
• * Those who played without 16 Test Bumrah took 49 wickets, average 25.10, strike rate 44.32, economy rate 3.40, 5 wickets 4 times, best 6/70 (12 won, 3 haras, 1 draw, win percentage 75.00)

In this way, the one who was seen in this England series is true of Siraj’s Test career, but it is not that India did not win the Tests in the team of both these bowlers. With these two, India won 10 out of 25 Tests and lost 11.

Then what is the truth of this confusion that India does not win Test with Bumrah? Even after the England series, there was a discussion on social media that if Bumrah does not play Test, India will be in profit.

• * After Bumrah’s Test debut, India has won 18 Tests abroad and believe that out of these, 12 Tests with Bumrah. This count is better, but the victory record of those Tests in percentage is better when they were not in the team. These won 12 of the 36 Tests, winning 8 out of 12 Tests in India. Therefore, the record of winning the Test with Bumrah abroad is not like winning the Test with Bumrah in India. ,

Since Bumrah’s Test debut, 6 of the 12 Tests that played abroad without Bumrah won. Out of these 6 wins found without Bumrah, 3 were relatively easy to team against Bangladesh (in 2-2022) and West Indies (in 1-2023). The remaining 3 wins were found in SENA countries and each one of them helped for fast bowling (Gaba against Australia and recently against England). If you do not take these 3 easy victories in the calculation, then the matter almost knows whether Bumrah is in the team or not, it does not matter.