Ravi Shastri compliments Jasprit Bumrah's ball control ability, says 'very few have done it'

Former India coach Ravi Shastri has praised Jasprit Burmah’s ability to work on the ball as he compared the pacer to legendary bowlers like Shane Warne and Wasim Akram. Speaking to the ICC Review show, Shastri reckons, Bumrah can control the ball according to his will. The legendary bowler recently helped India win their second T20 World Cup in the West Indies after the Men in Blue beat South Africa in the final.

Shastri is full of praise for Bumrah

“He just showed the world what it takes and you know, it's not often in your career when you have a ball in your hand and you say, do this and the ball does that,” Shastri said on ICC review.

“Very few have done it, I thought Wasim [Akram] and Waqar [Younis] had it in their prime when they played white-ball cricket. Shane Warne had it where he could literally tell the ball, go there, pitch there, hit leg stump. People who are on top of the game have that ability. I think Bumrah had that in this World Cup,” he added.

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Bumrah has been rested in the limited-overs series against Sri Lanka as part of the workload management. He is not part of the ongoing series where both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli returned to the side for the ODI leg. He has struggled with injuries in recent times and wants to be available for the important series for India in the future.

Bumrah is likely to return for the Bangladesh series in September and will be the side’s lead bowler in the five-match Test series against Australia. The Border-Gavaskar Trophy will start in November and will be targeted by Bumrah. He only returned to the Test set-up during India’s tour of South Africa in December having missed more than a year in the red-ball format.