Will Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja achieve new milestones during the Boxing Day Test at the MCG?
Jasprit Bumrah, the main fast bowler for India and Ravindra Jadeja, who can both bat and bowl, have some important goals they're aiming for in the next test match against Australia in Melbourne, which begins Thursday. Bumrah is nearly at 200 wickets in tests and Jadeja is also nearly at 600 wickets in all types of international cricket.
Bumrah is extremely close to being a 12th Indian bowler to hit 200 wickets in test matches .He just needs six more wickets since he's already taken 194. In 43 test matches, he's bowled out batsmen 194 times with an amazing average of just 19.52 his top performance in a game being 6/27 and he's managed to take five wickets in a match 12 times. This series has been on top of his approach, grasping 21 wickets in just three games which is incredible. His average is amazing 10.90, including twice with five or more wickets in a game and his best in a match being 6/76. Bumrah has really shown up, leading all the bowlers in wickets taken. Against Australia, he's been a nightmare for the batters taking 53 of them in just 10 tests, with an average of only 17.15.His best against them being 6/33.
Ravindra Jadeja is extremely close, only seven wickets away from hitting 600 wickets in international cricket. Hitting this number means he'd be the fifth Indian to ever do it.He has 593 wickets from playing in 349 games across different formats and his average is at 29.04.Jadeja's took five wickets in a game 17 times and once, he taken 7 wickets for just 42 runs, which is his top performance. Till now, in this series, he hasn't got any wickets yet but usually he is very good especially against Australia. Playing in 18 Test matches against them, he's taken 89 wickets which is strikingly large because his average is 20.35. He demonstrated by grasping five wickets in a game five times and even he taken 10 wickets in one game. Best ever is 7/42, against australia.
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