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Jasprit Bumrah shocking facts
1.Jasprit Bumrah was born on December 6th, 1993 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. He decided to play professional cricket at the age of 14. He is a right fast-medium bowler who started playing for Gujarat. He soon got rewarded with an IPL contract with the Mumbai Indians. The 24-year-old has never looked back since then, he quickly became India’s most dependable bowler in limited overs cricket
2.He lost his father at a very tender age of seven years. From then on, Bumrah’s mother who was a school Principal raised him single-handedly. Bumrah always wanted to settle in Canada but he realized his passion for the sport when he was 14 and worked very hard to improve his game.
3. He played his first game for Gujarat in the 2013 -14 season against Vidarbha. Bumrah, with his unique slingy action, picked seven wickets in his debut match. He eventually picked the most number of wickets in the tournament for Gujarat.
4. Former Mumbai Indians coach, John Wright was the first one to notice the spark in Bumrah. He saw him during the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and was impressed by the young lad.
5. Following an exceptional domestic season, Jasprit Bumrah was offered to play for the Mumbai Indians in 2013. The young quickie impressed everyone, right from his first game. Despite being hit for a couple of boundaries by Virat Kohli, he got him out in his very first over. A 19-year old, Bumrah went on to pick two more wickets in the game. His 3-32 against RCB in his first game impressed the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, John Wright, and Rohit Sharma. He was used as a surprise package by Mumbai Indians.
6.Though Jasprit was equipped with various bowling techniques – bouncers, yorkers, slow ball etc, he was very immature in using his abilities. He learned to utilize all of them from Mumbai Indians’ spearhead, Lasith Malinga. The veteran’s guidance helped Bumrah develop as a potential bowler.
7.Following a decent season with the Mumbai Indians in 2013, the young lad was bought again but this time for a whopping 1.2 crores, after which, the franchise decided to have him for the upcoming seasons too. Mumbai Indians franchise owner’s special interest in Bumrah made them buy him back for IPL
8. However, in the recently concluded player retentions, Jasprit Bumrah was retained by them along with Skipper Rohit and Hardik Pandya.
9.Bumrah’s ability to bowl yorkers consistently and perform well in the death got him a place in the Indian team. He played his first game for India in 2016, a T-20 against Australia. Despite being a regular member of the India-A team since 2014, Bumrah’s debut for India was delayed due to his knee injury. He came back after a gap of almost five months and had a brilliant domestic season, after which he got his maiden international call-up.
10.In the absence of Shami, he was picked to feature in the T-20 series against Australia in 2016. Bumrah played a key role in India sweeping the series 3-0. Bumrah finished the series as the highest wicket-taker.
11.MS Dhoni termed him as the find of the tour. The youngster cemented his place in the Indian team, within no time. He is now India’s specialist in the death overs.
12.It has always been very tough for the batsmen to read Jasprit Bumrah, mainly due to his unorthodox action. However, Bumrah turned into one of the toughest bowlers to face in the death overs. Bowling alongside Malinga, and Mitchell McClenaghan for the Mumbai Indians, he has done wonders. McGrath praised him for his unique action and abilities to swing the ball. He also asked Bumrah not to change his action.
13. Jasprit Bhurma who debuted in January 2016 against the Aussies became the bowler claiming most number of T20I wickets in a calendar year within seven months. During the two-match series against West Indies, he surpassed Dirk Nannes‘ record by picking 28 wickets.
14.Jasprit Bhurma became India’s 290th player in Test Cricket by playing the first Test against South Africa. He picked ABD as his first wicket donning the Whites for India.
15.In 2014, when Jasprit Bhurma got Mr. 360 out in an exemplifying fashion, the young lad became all animated. He celebrated by giving the legend a harsh send-off. However, he realized his mistake and quickly apologized to the star batsman via Twitter.
Mahammed Shami shocking facts
1. Family of fast bowlers: Shami's father Tousif Ali used to be a fast bowler during his playing days. He is one of the four brothers from his family and each of them wanted to become a fast bowlerbut Shami turned out to be the only to have made the cut.
2. From UP to Bengal: Shami originally hails from Sahaspur village in Amroha, Uttar Pradesh but he plays for Bengal in domestic cricket and there s a story behind it. In the year 2005, Shami's father got to know about his bowling abilities and took him to Moradabad, which is 22 km from their village to train him under a cricket coach named Badruddin Siddique. At that time, Shami was only 15-year old and after knowing about his ability of bowling at good pace, Siddique advised his father to send him to Kolkata, where he started playing for Dalhousie Athletic Club.
3. Reverse swing specialist: At an early age of his career, Shami learnt the skill of reverse swing. To become a specialist, Shami practised hard by taking old red balls from the organisers and shine it on one side. He practised a lot with that ball to get the hone his reverse swinging skills.
4. Confusion over his name: When Shami debuted for India, he was known as Shami Ahmed but later it was noted that his original name is Mohammed Shami. In an interview to a newspaper, Shami revealed this by saying, I don t know how my name got that tail. I m Mohammed Shami, not Shami Ahmed.
5. Impressive international debut: Shami made his international debut for India in the third One-Day International of the series against Pakistan in January 2013 in Delhi. It was quite tough for him because India were defending a very low total of 167 but Shami bowled excellently by conceding just 23 runs from his spell of nine overs and picked a wicket as well.
6. Fifer on Test debut: Later in the same year, he made his Test debut in November against West Indies. In the first innings, Shami missed his first fifer by one wicket as he took four wickets for 71 runs but came out hard in the second innings. He scalped his maiden fifer on his debut Test with a spell of five for 47. He guided India to a convincing victory with an innings and 51 runs. He became the eighth Indian bowler to take a fifer on his Test debut.
7. Last wicket hero: In the first Test against England at Nottingham in July 2014, Shami and his partner Bhuvneshwar Kumar added 111 runs for the last wicket in the first innings of the match and ensured a good total on board. Shami came at the crease when India were nine down for 346 and from there on Shami stuck to his guns and remained unbeaten. Shami scored 51 runs, which was his maiden fifty in international cricket while Bhuvneshwar made 58. Their partnership of 111 runs was the second biggest by an Indian pair for 10th wicket.
8. World Cup 2015: Shami was India's second best bowler in World Cup 2015 by taking 17-wickets in seven matches at 17.29. It was Shami, who probably lit up the fire in the Indian bowling department by registering his best bowling figures against arch-rivals Pakistan in the first match. He scalped four wickets for 35 runs and India won the game easily by 76 runs.
9. Injuries: Being a fast bowler, one is bound to be rpone to injuries and Shami is no different. His first injury in international cricket came just before the Sri Lanka series in November 2014, which took place in his knee. Later, he bowled well in the 2015 World Cup. After the tournament, Shami revealed that he bowled through pain in his left knee due to which he had to undergo a surgery, which kept him out of action for a year. He made his comeback in 2016 during the West Indies tour and once again did well for the team.
10. IPL: Shami first played for Kolkata Knight Riders Indian Premier League in 2011 season, though he played only few matches but was retained for next two years. Later in 2014, he was bought by Delhi Daredevils for a whopping price of INR 4.25 crore and since then he has been the part of that team
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