India’s supreme fast bowler destroyed the top order in Perth and the hosts have little time to avoid a second Test repeat
India’s Jasprit Bumrah appeals unsuccessfully for the wicket of Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne during the first innings. He got him in the second innings.India’s Jasprit Bumrah appeals unsuccessfully for the wicket of Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne during the first innings. He got him in the second innings.Test cricket is supposed to be cruel. This is a key aspect of its beauty. This thing hurts.
The gather and release is an extraordinary act of coiled self‑catapult. The left arm, which used to reach up into a flamboyant disco finger-point, now leads straight down the wicket. Look closely and the right hand ends up between his legs, fingertips slapping his own buttocks, source of much of that whiplash power (his wife, Sanjana Ganesan, posted: “Great bowler, even greater booty,”From there the first ball is on Usman Khawaja’s pads. The second veers in horribly at Nathan McSweeney’s elbow.
By now the full fog of Bumrah pressure has descended, the constant chivvying, harrying, shifts of line and angle, as close as pace bowling gets to the dismantling of an elite spin bowler, but enacted by a man who can also send one fizzing at your throat with a dip of the shoulder.by the perfect snaking in-ducker, the ball striking his pad flush with a lovely deep thunk, Smith so tangled he looks by the end as if he is trying to use his bat as a pogo stick.
In that first innings he was finally out to Mohammed Siraj for two off 52 balls. In the second he becamein an equally visceral Bumrah opening spell. This really was a beauty. Labuschagne’s fifth ball, his second from Bumrah, full and straight, snaking in so late that he tried to leave it, but ended up falling forward in a doomed arc, landing on his wrists like a US marine being told to drop and give everyone 20.
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