Damien Fleming tells Jasprit Bumrah knows his strengths and he is always sniffing to find that weakness. Former Australian player Damien Fleming also commend on Indian team vice-captain Jasprit Bumrah, calling him a “Terminator.”
Fleming said Sydney Morning Herald ” He is just the Terminator, isn’t he?”
“He knows his strengths and he is always sniffing to find that weakness. I think he does that instinctively, and it’s not a long run-up, but I can see he is reviewed that ball, and then he’s planning the next one.”
Remembering Bumrah’s slower ball to Shaun Marsh at the cusp of Lunch Break in Melbourne Test during the 2018-19 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Fleming told: ” There is that famous dismissal of Shaun Marsh at the MCG in 2018 in the over before lunch. I was commentating at the time, and I could almost pick what was going to happen, just driving him back, so his weight’s on the back foot, and then he bowls that superb slower ball and knocks him over.
“It was either going to be that slower ball or a fast yorker. So I think he is so astute, but he also now has all the skills- outswingers, inswingers, off-cutters, slower balls, excellent yorker, bouncer.
“So when you have got more skills, you have got more options. Like the Terminator, he is always stalking the batsmen. And the batsmen know that, but they are still unsure what’s coming. Not only does he have a wide skill set, but he executes it better than anyone in world cricket.”
India will play with Australia in the pink-ball Test starting from 6th December 2024 in Adelaide.
