‘It’s going to be good to look again at your profession and inform the grandchildren that you just confronted him,’ Australian batter Head says of star Indian pacer Bumrah.
India’s Jasprit Bumrah will go down as “one of many best quick bowlers to play the sport,” says Australia’s top-order batter Travis Head as each group puts together to face off within the second check of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Stand-in skipper Bumrah took eight wickets in a supremely correct and ferocious show of quick bowling within the first check to assist the guests to a crushing 295-run victory in Perth on November 25.
The 30-year-old is about to hand the captaincy again to common skipper Rohit Sharma for the second check. Unburdened by management duties, Bumrah could possibly be much more of a menace beneath lights with the pink ball.
“Jasprit might be going to go down as one of many best quick bowlers to play the sport,” Head stated on Monday, earlier than the day-night Check in Adelaide that begins on Friday.
“We’re discovering that in the mean time—how difficult he will be—and it’s good to play in opposition to that.
“It’s going to be good to look again at your profession and inform the grandkids that you just confronted him, so it’s not a foul collection to play in with him,” Head added. He was certainly one of Bumrah’s three second-inning wickets at Perth.
“Hopefully I solely must face [him] just a few extra instances. He’s been difficult.”
Head top-scored for Australia with 89 within the hosts’ second innings, and he can be on acquainted territory on his dwelling turf on the Adelaide Oval.
However, for all that, the 30-year-old stated, “It’s simply one other week—go and put together and go in contemporary, and hopefully I can roll out the identical form of performances.
“It’s going to be a problem; however, I really feel like I’m shifting properly, really feel like I’m in an excellent area, and exit and attempt to execute that.”
He stated the hosts, who got here into the five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy collection as favourites, had rapidly acquired over the shock of their heavy loss within the opener.
“The writing was on the wall fairly rapidly in that Check match that we had been pushing it uphill,” he stated.
“So for me, it was reflecting in-game what we may have completed higher by the point that the end result had come.
“It’s a fairly straightforward one as such to maneuver on and recover from, and begin speaking about what’s coming.”
India maintain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after successful it at dwelling in 2022-23 and lead the five-match collection 1-0.
Australia final gained the bilateral check collection in 2014-15 at dwelling.
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