Bumrah: India's lone bright spot in a Sunday disaster
Ahmedabad, Feb. 23 -- Twenty-four hours before the game against South Africa, Jasprit Bumrah practised yorkers at the Narendra Modi Stadium. This was when the rest of the team was going through their own routines at the main stadium in Ahmedabad before facing South Africa. Bumrah does not usually turn up for practice a day before the match. So this was his own training session, with very few watching, setting up the stump-shattering show for the world to watch on Sunday.
It was quite special to see Bumrah spend an extended session doing spot bowling. Power-hitters spend time range-hitting but this was like watching a surgeon wield the scalpel.
As it turned out, none of Bumrah's three scalps in India's 76-run defeat came from yorkers, but th...
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