'Bumrah Is A Cheat Code...': Ravichandran Ashwin Reiterates Ace Pacer's Importance

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Last Updated:May 31, 2025, 15:12 IST

Ravichandran Ashwin has lauded Jasprit Bumrah's show successful IPL 2025 Eliminator, calling him a 'cheat code' for his exceptional bowling against Gujarat Titans.

Jasprit Bumrah tilted the momentum successful MI's favour against GT (Picture credit: AP)

Former India cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin has said that the IPL 2025 Eliminator crippled betwixt the Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians could person gotten person if Jasprit Bumrah didn’t vessel a stunning implicit to the big-hitting Rahul Tewatia, calling the ace India pacer a ‘cheat code’.

Mumbai, the five-time champions, progressed to Qualifier 2 aft registering a 20-run triumph implicit Gujarat successful Mullanpur.

Star India all-rounder Washington Sundar and Sai Sudharsan enactment connected 84 runs for the 3rd wicket. It was Bumrah who ended the important basal arsenic helium rattled Sundar’s stumps successful the 14th over, dismissing him for 48.

Praising Bumrah, Ashwin said that helium sometimes makes the skipper look amended than helium is.

“This crippled could person gone adjacent person if Jasprit Bumrah’s implicit didn’t happen. The asking complaint was similar 12, 13, 14, but helium gave similar 7 oregon 8 runs successful his past 2 overs. Rahul Tewatia deed him for a six, but still, the mode helium came backmost and gave 1 tally successful the adjacent 2 balls, that defines Bumrah," Ashwin said portion speaking connected his YouTube channel.

“I had tweeted during the T20 World Cup that Bumrah is simply a cheat codification successful today’s T20 cricket. Have you ever played this Road Rash, NFS game? It’s a cheat code. If you play these games, you tin participate a codification and you tin tally faster," Ashwin said.

“You tin bushed everyone else. It’s a cheat code. In today’s world, arsenic a captain, sometimes I consciousness Jasprit Bumrah makes a skipper look amended than they are. The mode helium nails those yorkers, changes up his slower balls, each that said and done, I deliberation Mumbai besides went to yorkers precise early," Ashwin added.

Bumrah has expectedly been the standout performer for MI successful IPL 2025, picking up 18 wickets.

Ashwin requested fans not to comparison him with Wasim Akram and Malcolm Marshall, arsenic helium isn’t a instrumentality of comparing cricketers from antithetic generations.

“I person ne'er seen Malcolm Marshall’s bowling. But I person heard a batch astir him. I person seen Wasim Akram’s bowling. He has fixed nightmares to the Indian team. But this examination crossed generations is simply a precise incorrect happening to do," Ashwin said.

“In today’s world, successful Indian cricket, successful the scenery successful which we see batters to beryllium large people, I americium so, truthful blessed for Jasprit Bumrah. Jasprit Bumrah has fixed phillip for Indian pacers to tally successful a agelong mode and vessel with smartness, with coagulated execution," Ashwin added.

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