Watch What Jasprit Bumrah Said After Name Captain For The England Test At Edgbaston. After being rule out due to Covid. Regular skipper Rohit Sharma. Replaced by Jasprit Bumrah for the rescheduled fifth Test at Edgbaston.
After being name captain for the fifth reschedule Test against England, Jasprit Bumrah became India’s 36th Test captain. Bumrah is the first fast bowler to be name captain of the Indian Test team since Kapil Dev in 1987. Regular captain Rohit Sharma did not recover in time from COVID-19 and rule out of the Edgbaston Test on Thursday after his RAT tested positive again. Bumrah has never captained a First-class. List A, or Indian Premier League team. So it will be interesting to see how he handles things in the crucial fifth Test.
Jasprit Bumrah Said After Being Name Captain
“It’s a huge accomplishment and a huge honor. Playing a Test match a dream come true for me. To be given this opportunity is a huge accomplishment. – One of the biggest in my career. So I am overjoy to given this opportunity ” Bumrah stated this during a press conference following his appointment. A video of which BCCI alsp tweeted on Friday.
“Rohit is obviously a very important player, we will surely miss him, it is unfortunate that this has happened and he is missing out,” Bumrah said of regular skipper Rohit Sharma.
India leads the five-match series 2-1, but must now contend with a much-changed and more formidable England side.
Moreover, England wins the 2021 series against India after a 3-0 clean sweep of Test world champions New Zealand, led by new captain Ben Stokes and red-ball coach Brendon McCullum.
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