India’s Jasprit Bumrah ‘one of the greatest fast bowlers ever’: Travis Head

‘It’s going to beryllium bully to look backmost astatine your vocation and archer the grandkids that you faced him,’ Australian batter Head says of prima Indian pacer Bumrah.

India’s Jasprit Bumrah volition spell down arsenic “one of the top accelerated bowlers to play the game”, says Australia’s top-order batter Travis Head arsenic some teams hole to face-off successful the 2nd Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Stand-in skipper Bumrah took 8 wickets successful a supremely close and ferocious show of accelerated bowling successful the first Test to assistance the visitors to a crushing 295-run triumph successful Perth connected November 25.

The 30-year-old is acceptable to manus the captaincy backmost to regular skipper Rohit Sharma for the 2nd Test. Unburdened by enactment duties, Bumrah could beryllium adjacent much of a menace nether lights with the pinkish ball.

“Jasprit is astir apt going to spell down arsenic 1 of the top accelerated bowlers to play the game,” Head said connected Monday, earlier the day-night Test successful Adelaide that begins connected Friday.

“We’re uncovering that astatine the infinitesimal – however challenging helium tin be, and it’s bully to play against that.

“It’s going to beryllium bully to look backmost astatine your vocation and archer the grandkids that you faced him, truthful it’s not a atrocious bid to play successful with him,” Head added. He was 1 of Bumrah’s 3 second-innings wickets astatine Perth.

“Hopefully I lone person to look [him] a fewer much times. He’s been challenging.”

Jasprit Bumrah dismissed Australia’s top-scorer Travis Head successful the 2nd innings of the archetypal Test lucifer astatine Perth [Paul Kane/Cricket Australia via Getty Images]

Head top-scored for Australia with 89 successful the hosts’ 2nd innings and helium volition beryllium connected acquainted territory connected his location turf astatine the Adelaide Oval.

But for each that, the 30-year-old said: “It’s conscionable different week – spell and hole and spell successful caller and hopefully I tin rotation retired the aforesaid benignant of performances.

“It’s going to beryllium a situation but I consciousness similar I’m moving well, consciousness similar I’m successful a bully abstraction and spell retired and effort and execute that.”

He said the hosts, who came into the five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy bid arsenic favourites, had rapidly got implicit the daze of their dense nonaccomplishment successful the opener.

“The penning was connected the partition beauteous rapidly successful that Test lucifer that we were pushing it uphill,” helium said.

“So for maine it was reflecting in-game what we could person done amended by the clip that effect had come.

“It’s a beauteous casual 1 arsenic specified to determination connected and get over, and commencement talking astir what’s coming.”

India clasp the Border-Gavaskar Trophy aft winning it astatine location successful 2022-23 and pb the five-match bid 1-0.

Australia past won the bilateral Test bid successful 2014-15 astatine home.