Jasprit Bumrah became the highest average fast bowler of the 21st century.
Ever since Jasprit Bumrah made his debut in international cricket, he has been a big headache for the opposing team’s batsmen. Bumrah is among those players who don’t care much about the conditions, but if the pitch helps even a little, it becomes even more difficult to take on Bumrah. An example of this was seen on the first day of the first Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 played between India and Australia at the Optus Stadium in Perth, when the Indian team was restricted to a score of just 150 in His First Innings At the end of the game, Australia had also lost 7 wickets in their first innings to a score of 67. Bumrah has taken a total of 4 wickets so far including Smith and Khawaja. At the same time, he has left behind many great fast bowlers in a special list.
Bumrah became the fast bowler with the best average of the 21st century
In the current century in cricket we have seen one of the best fast bowlers, who have amazed the batsmen with their balls. One of the names included in this is Jasprit Bumrah, who is slowly being included in the list of great fast bowlers. Bumrah is the bowler with best bowling average so far among the fast bowlers who have taken more than 100 wickets in the 21st century. Bumrah has so far taken 177 wickets in 41 Test matches, in which his average has been 20.20. After this, the name of the great Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath, who has played a total of 58 Test matches in the, is included in this list. 21st century and has taken 258 wickets. He has taken wickets at an average of 21.28.
Fast bowlers who bowled at the best average and took more than 100 wickets in 21st century Tests.
Jasprit Bumrah – Average 20.20
Glenn McGrath – Average 21.28
Kagiso Rabada – Average of 21.49
Shoaib Akhtar – Average 22.21
Vernon Philander – Average of 22.32
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