#1 Jasprit Bumrah
It has been ages since India had a bowler who could be brought on to bowl just at the death. To be honest, neither had the trend of specialist death bowlers been so necessary for limited-overs cricket and nor were India that rich in terms of their supply of quality death bowlers.
Not that they are any rich now, but Bumrah’s appearance on the international stage has given them more hopes than any other bowler in the modern era had ever given them before. Barring his knack for catching and fielding the cricket ball akin to the way a basketball is held and his affinity for no balls, his ability to nail the yorker at will is pure gold as far as Indian cricket is concerned.
22 wickets from 11 ODIs at an average of 21.68 and an economy rate of 4.89 speak in abundance about the talent that the 23-year-old possesses, and he should not allow the pressure of an ICC tournament get the better of him, something that he had failed to do during the ICC World T20 final.
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