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Jasprit Bumrah beats Kapil Dev to become joint-fastest to 50 Test wickets at home

Abhinav Tyagi

Jasprit Bumrah vs West Indies - (Source :AFP)Jasprit Bumrah vs West Indies - (Source :AFP)

On Thursday, October 2, India locked horns against the West Indies in the first of the two Test match series at the Narendra Modi Stadium. The visitors, batting first, got off to a terrible start and collapsed for just 162 runs, courtesy of Siraj's four-fer and Jasprit Bumrah's three-wicket haul.

Eyes were on Jasprit Bumrah, who didn't look his best during the Asia Cup. However, in the first Test, the right-arm seamer swung back to his best and rattled the batters with his yorkers. Further, with a three-wicket haul, Jasprit scripted history as he became the joint-scripted history as he became the joint-fastest Indian to take 50 wickets at home.

Jasprit Bumrah Goes Equal With Srinath

Bumrah completed his 50 wickets in just 24 innings and joined Javagal Srinath in this historic list. Also, Jasprit surpassed the likes of 1983 World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev, who had completed in 25 innings. Here is the complete list.

  • Jasprit Bumrah - 24
  • Javagal Srinath - 24
  • Kapil Dev - 25
  • Ishant Sharma - 27
  • Mohammad Shami - 27

Jasprit Bumrah in a league of his own

Jasprit Bumrah has played 92 Tests innings for India and only 24 of them have been at home. Overall, the right-arm seamer has 222 wickets, but only fifty have been at home. Talking about Bumrah's figures at home, then he boasts better number at home than away.

Out of 24 innings, Bumrah has 50 wickets and boasts a strike-rate of 35.1. Meanwhile, shedding light on his away figures, then Bumrah, then he has 172 wickets in 66 innings, with a strike-rate of 43.3.

Talking about the ongoing match, at the time of writing, India are batting on 18/0 after 7 overs.