India vs New Zealand 2017, 3rd T20I: Hits and Misses

#2 Hit: The Yuzvendra Chahal-Jasprit Bumrah duo

Yuzvendra Chahal, who has been skipper Kohli’s wingman ever since he was drafted into the Royal Challengers Bangalore squad for IPL 2014, proved his worth yet again in Thiruvananthapuram today.

In the high octane pressure bowling in a rain-truncated game, the youngster gave away just 8 runs in his two-over spell. He showed his master class through the twelve deliveries that he bowled and was not hit for a single boundary throughout the game.

Bowling in the IPL through the years has conditioned bowlers like Chahal to be well prepared for situations like this, and that showed clearly in his performance in the game. He kept fooling the Kiwi batsmen with the terrific turn and bounce that he extracted from the surface and bamboozled them with his intelligent bowling.

He might not have a wicket to his credit for this game, but he definitely was the best Indian bowler of the day.

Jasprit Bumrah, India’s specialist bowler in limited overs cricket, proved his reliability yet again and scalped two wickets in his two-over spell. The way he bowls in this format of the game just shows that India have struck gold with his sensational cricketer, who keeps performing at the highest of level every time the captain passes that cork ball to him.