In the ongoing five-match Test series against England, the Indian bowlers have delivered whenever the team needed them and the best testimony of the same came in the ongoing fourth Test in Southampton on theDay 1. Despite losing the toss on a good pitch, the visitors bundled out England for just 246 runs. The potent pace attack showed immense consistency in their bowling, but one delivery which stood out was Jasprit Bumrah’s inswinger to Keaton Jennings which surprised one and all. While many feel that the bowler has developed the variation just now, defying those comments, former Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh skiddy pace has it in him for a long time.

Bumrah set up Jennings nicely by bowling consistent outswingers which he as leaving comfortably. But then one jagged back in suddenly to which the left-hander shouldered his arms and was hit on the pads in front of the stumps. The key is the dismissal was the bowler didn’t change his action much and didn’t let Jennings know that he has bowled the inswinger.

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The veteran cricketers like Ian Botham and Michael Holding were immensely impressed with Bumrah’s delivery and opined that he developed the delivery on England tour itself as they had never seen him bowling such way. As quoted in Times of India (TOI), Botham said, “That’s a delivery that Bumrah has developed in the last one week. It’s unbelievable that he could do that. I never saw him bowling that delivery in the Nottingham Test and before that.”

Even Holding was surprised and felt bad for the batsman as he felt that how can one read that the bowler is bowling a variation when he isn’t changing his action much. He said, “Is it possible for the batsman to read the seam position when the bowler is steaming in at that pace?” 

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However, Harbhajan roasted Botham and Holding and reminded them of a similar delivery Bumrah bowled to get rid of Chris Gayle in 2016 during the ICC World T20. He said, “You guys have a very poor cricket memory. Go and take a look at the delivery with which he got Chris Gayle in the 2016 T20 World Cup semifinal. When he was bowling with the white ball, he always had that delivery, just that he didn’t use it too frequently.”