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World No. 1 Test bowler Jasprit Bumrah has dismissed 45 batters in nine matches of the 2023-25 World Test Championship for India.
Jasprit Bumrah has 45 wickets to his name in nine matches of WTC 2023-25. (Picture Credit: AP)
Jasprit Bumrah is all set to lead India’s pace attack in the second Test against New Zealand, which is scheduled to take place at Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) Stadium in Pune from Thursday (October 24) onwards. During the second Test, which is a must-win for the hosts, in order to keep the hopes of winning the series alive, the world No. 1 bowler will have a chance to join star spinner Ravichandran Ashwin in an elite list.
Bumrah, who was India’s best bowler in the series opener played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru last week, needs five wickets in the Pune Test to become the second Indian after Ashwin to dismiss at least 50 batters in a single edition of the World Test Championship. He has 45 wickets to his name in nine matches played so far in the ongoing 2023-25 edition of WTC.
Ashwin, who is India’s second-leading wicket-taker in Test cricket, has managed to take at least 50 wickets in all three editions of the WTC. He is the only bowler in the world to achieve this feat. The 38-year-old cricketer dismissed 71 batters in 14 matches of WTC 2019-21 and picked up 61 wickets in 13 WTC 2021-23 matches.
Most wickets in one edition of WTC for India
- Ravichandran Ashwin (2019-21) – 71
- Ravichandran Ashwin (2021-23) – 61
- Ravichandran Ashwin (2023-25) – 54
- Ravindra Jadeja (2021-23) – 47
- Jasprit Bumrah (2023-25) – 45
- Jasprit Bumrah (2021-23) – 45
- Mohammed Shami (2021-23) – 45
- Mohammed Shami (2019-21) – 40
- Ishant Sharma (2019-21) – 39
- Ravindra Jadeja (2023-25) – 38
In the ongoing edition of WTC, he has so far accounted for the dismissal of 54 batters in 11 matches. He finished as the leading wicket-taker in WTC 2019-21 and is also leading the chart in the ongoing 2023-25 edition.
A total of 10 bowlers—Ashwin, Pat Cummins, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood, Tim Southee, Stuart Broad, Kagiso Rabada, James Anderson, Mitchell Starc, and Ollie Robinson—have managed to dismiss more than 50 batters in a single edition of WTC.
The record of dismissing most batters in one edition of WTC is in the name of Lyon, who got rid of 88 batters in 20 matches during the 2021–23 season.
Bumrah, who is one of the three Indian bowlers to take 100+ wickets in WTC, dismissed 34 batters in 10 matches of the 2019-21 cycle and 45 batters in 10 matches of the 2021-23 season. He missed the 2023 edition of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and the 2023 WTC final against Australia due to a back injury.
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