Bumrah

Young squeezes the first ball of Bumrah’s third over down to third-man for a single so Ravindra will face up to Bumrah, who has been on the money straight away.

With figures of 5/30, Bumrah bagged his 11th Test five-wicket haul on Day 2 of the opening Test. This was his seventh five-fer for Bumrah in SENA countries.

After making his return to competitive cricket, Bumrah was appointed as captain of India for the T20Is in Ireland in August.

As for Surya and Bumrah, there weren’t any rumours about them considering other offers.

Bumrah comes on, they need some magic from him.

Bumrah is on strike and gets off the mark with a hoick through wide mid-on for four.

Having got through that period against the new ball, when Bumrah and Shami had reduced Australia to 47/3 in the seventh over, Head, progressively grew in confidence.

He was the soft target, the one Jasprit Bumrah and Co would unleash all their guiles and energy against to bundle out South Africa.

If the usual India angle involved its batters against rival bowlers, the converse would be the theme now as much would hinge on how the pace trio of Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj and Mohammed Shami get through South Africa’s batting order.

Incidentally, the loudest screams probably came from the bowler Jasprit Bumrah, who had produced the best slower ball of the world cup- a wondrously timed off cutter.

Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah in action.

India's greatest fast bowling team in a World Cup - Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj - is meshing well with its most effective spin duo, both left armers, one a finger spinner (Ravindra Jadeja) and the other a wrist spinner (Kuldeep Yadav).

It is a decent total but not something which cannot be chased down given the conditions the pitch is still brilliant for batting the job for Jaspirt Bumrah and his teammates is cut out.

Jasprit Bumrah (2/35 in 11 overs) bowled a couple of wicket-taking deliveries to pull India briefly back into the contest.

Jasprit Bumrah last played in a T20 match against Australia back in 2022 and he can be making his return in the series against Ireland.

Jasprit Bumrah smashed Stuart Broad for 35 runs on this day last year.

Like, Aamir, Bumrah also had a dry run at the field in the past year.

Rinku Singh (left) wit Jasprit Bumrah at the post-match presentation.

Team India will see the presence of Virat Kohli, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, and Kuldeep Yadav in today's match.

The side, skippered by Rohit Sharma, were aware Bumrah would miss the season as the yorker specialist underwent lower-back surgery in March and has been out of action since September last year.