During the day two of the ongoing Adelaide Test between the hosts Australia and the visitors India, Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah bowled the fastest delivery of the Test match. In the day, once the right-arm fast bowler clocked over 150 kmph speed.
Indian bowlers were totally disciplined in front of the Aussie batsmen during day two of the Adelaide Test. After scoring 250 runs in their first innings, Indian bowlers dominated the day from the start of the hosts’ innings. At the end of the day, Australia is fighting on 191/7, thanks to Travis Head’s unbeaten 61 runs off 149 balls (6 fours).
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While every Indian bowler was much disciplined on the day, the right-arm pacer Jasprit Bumrah generated a special moment. After celebrating his 25th birthday on Thursday, Bumrah managed to bowl a special delivery on Friday morning that clocked over 150 kmph.
During the 8th over of Australian innings, Bumrah produced a delivery to the debutant opener Marcus Harris that clocked 153.25 kmph. At the end of day two of this Adelaide Test, it is the highest recorded speed that has been delivered by a bowler in this game. In this fight, Bumrah beat the Aussie pacers Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins, who are well known to deliver this kind of pace. At the end of the day, Bumrah had an average speed of 142 kmph.
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On this important day of the game, Bumrah picked up two wickets – Peter Handscomb and Pat Cummins. At the early third session of the day, Handscomb was caught behind after finding an edge on Bumrah’s delivery.
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Just after taking the new ball, Bumrah dismissed the well-settled Pat Cummins for 10 runs who had a 50-run partnership for the seventh wicket with Travis Head. A huge inswinger hit on Cummins’ pad who didn’t offer any shot on that. After the bowling end umpire raised his finger to announce his dismissal, Cummins went for a review. However, the story remained unchanged as the ball was hitting the stumps according to the ball-tracking and Australia lost that review.