Former India captain and legendary all-rounder Kapil Dev has questioned whether India’s pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah can play another 10-12 years of cricket with his bowling action as well. He also opined that since batters did not face bowlers like Bumrah in the nets, they found it harder to play him in a match as well.

Kapil Dev said on “The Squirrels” YouTube channel: “There are two things that always come out. Any bowler in the world with an awkward action takes that much difficult time for a batter to pick the ball like Malinga. Those types of bowlers we don’t practice in the nets, and suddenly out of the blue, somebody comes with a different action, a difficult action, that fraction of a second, if you can’t pick what he’s trying to do, that is good enough for a bowler.”

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“So, Bumrah has become very good because nobody could imagine from a batsman’s point of view that in such a short run up, he can generate such big pace. His action is not like an athlete’s action; that’s why Bumrah can be devastating for the opposition. But can he sustain that for a period of 10 or 12 years, which, as a cricketer, we feel is difficult,” he again shared.

Kapil Dev also revealed a lesson he learnt from Sunil Gavaskar during their playing days as well.

“I remember one small lesson I got from Sunil Gavaskar. He said to me, ‘Kapil, when you bowl close to the wicket, it is very difficult for me to judge what you are trying to do.”So, I don’t know when to leave the ball and when to play. But when you bowl from wide of the crease, I can see the ball much better. So that one small point, sometimes only your colleague can say, others may not understand,” Kapil Dev concluded.