Jasprit Bumrah Player of the… title taken away from Cummins, the Indian fast bowler gave the good news before the Champions Trophy

Jasprit Bumrah, who single-handedly took the Kangaroos during the tour of Australia, has given Indian fans another reason to rejoice. ICC has selected Jasprit Bumrah as the best cricketer of December 2024. Bumrah beat Pat Cummins and Dane Patterson to win the Player of the Month award for December. Bumrah has won this award for the second time.

On Tuesday, January 14, ICC announced that Jasprit Bumrah has been selected as the Player of the Year for December. Bumrah played three Test matches against Australia in December and took 22 wickets. Meanwhile, Bumrah’s average was 14.22. After this performance, a debate was seen among the great players whether Jasprit Bumrah should be included in the all time great fast bowlers. From Sunil Gavaskar to Ricky Ponting, most of the legends believe that Bumrah is the best fast bowler of this era. Cummins took 17 wickets in December. He also played three brilliant innings of 49 and 41 runs in Melbourne.

It was the performance of Jasprit Bumrah, thanks to which India could draw the Brisbane Test. In this match, Bumrah prevented Australia from making a big score by taking 6 wickets in the first innings. After that, he also took 3 wickets in the second innings. This time in Australia was very special for Bumrah. He bowled in 9 innings of five matches and took 32 wickets. He could not bowl in the second innings of the Sydney Test due to injury.

Player of the Series 🏅

Jasprit Bumrah – a notch above the rest in the #AUSWIN series 🙌

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— ICC (@ICC) January 5, 2025

Jasprit Bumrah completed 200 wickets in Test cricket during the tour of Australia. Bumrah is the only bowler in the world who has taken 200 wickets at an average of less than 20 in Test cricket. Bumrah has played a total of 45 Test matches so far, in which he has 205 wickets to his name.