Whenever the Indian team comes out to bowl, all eyes are always on star fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah. No matter what the situation is, no matter the team in front, no matter how good the form of the batsman, when Bumrah comes in front with the new ball in his hand, the Indian paceman often has the upper hand.

The latest example of this was found in the Super-8 match of T20 World Cup 2026, when Bumrah took 2 wickets of South Africa in just 2 overs. Among those who fell victim to Bumrah was South Africa's legendary opener Quinton de Kock, who continues to perform poorly against the Indian pacer.

On Sunday 22nd February at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad. India and South Africa Were face to face in the Super-8 match. The South African team was batting first, the decision of which was taken by its captain Aiden Markram. But this decision proved wrong in the second over itself, when Bumrah took his first victim.

He failed in his attempt to hit a six on the fifth ball of the second over of the innings and the bails placed above his stumps flew into the air. With this, South Africa got its first blow in the second over itself.

De Kock again became Bumrah's victim

Hardly anyone would have been surprised by this feat of Bumrah because his performance against De Kock has always been good. With this match, Bumrah made it even better. In all the times the two players have faced each other in T20 International so far, De Kock has faced 27 balls from Bumrah.

Till date, De Kock has been able to score only 29 runs in these 27 balls. Bumrah took the wicket of the South African batsman for the third time.

In this way, De Kock's average against Bumrah is only 9.66 and his strike rate is only 107.40. Not only this, Bumrah has also become the bowler who has bowled the batsmen the most number of times in T20 International. So far in his career, he has taken wickets by bowling the batsmen 44 times.

Bumrah gave a great start

Bumrah did not calm down just by dismissing De Kock, but he again showed his magic in the next over.

On the last ball of the fourth over of the innings, Bumrah trapped Ryan Rickleton with his slower ball, who gave an easy catch to Hardik Pandya at mid-off. In this way, in his first 2 overs, Bumrah took 2 wickets for just 7 runs. At the same time, in the third over between these two wickets, Arshdeep Singh also did wonders and made South Africa's situation difficult by hunting South African captain Aiden Markram.

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