Bumrah has reached to the top of the rankings for the first time in his career following a career-defining performance in the second Test match against England in Vizag.
He dethroned fellow Indian Ravichandran Ashwin to become the fourth Indian to hold the top spot in the history of the ICC Test Rankings.
Bumrah timed nine scalps, including 6/45 in Britain’s most memorable innings
Bumrah oversaw 9/91 in the match versus Britain, taking his tenth five-wicket pull in the principal innings (6/45).
He bowled with a ton of toxin and got a few valued scalps all the while.
In the match, Bumrah turned into the quickest Indian pacer to 150 Test scalps.
He enlisted the best bowling figures (6/45) for an Indian pacer in a home Test match beginning around 2000.
Very first bowler with this accomplishment
According to Cricket Analyst Rajneesh Gupta, Bumrah turned into the very first bowler to take nine wickets in India-Britain Tests in the two nations.
The Indian pacer recorded figures worth 9/110 in the 2021 Nottingham Test. He scalped four and five wickets, separately, in two innings.
Quite, the match finished in a draw.
Bumrah is the main wicket-taker in 2024 (Tests)
Bumrah possesses 155 scalps from 34 matches at a normal of 20.19. In nine matches versus Britain, the right-arm pacer has counted 56 scalps at 20.87. He enrolled his third five-wicket pull against Britain.
Bumrah scores a fantastic 13.06 in tests at home.
Outstandingly, he possesses the most wickets in Tests this year (23). Additionally, he has taken the most wickets in the current series.
Bumrah drives the show, Ashwin drops to third place
Bumrah has hustled to 881 rating focuses with Ashwin dropping two spots to third (841). Ashwin has been common in the continuous series and has seen Kagiso Rabada surpassing him.
Sri Lanka’s Prabath Jayasuriya, who took 3/67 and 5/107 in the oddball Test versus Afghanistan, has leaped to 6th.
James Anderson climbed one spot to seventh with Nathan Lyon uprooting Ravindra Jadeja at eighth.