'Jasprit Bumrah Is A Vaccine That Can Cure Any Illness': MI Ace Gets Huge Compliment

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Last Updated:May 31, 2025, 13:47 IST

Jasprit Bumrah unleashed a tremendous yorker to get escaped of a well-set Washington Sundar and turned the crippled for Mumbai Indians successful the IPL 2025 Eliminator.

Jasprit Bumrah celebrates aft dismissing Washington Sundar. (AP Photo)

Former India pacer Varun Aaron offered unsocial praise for ace pacer Jasprit Bumrah, calling him an “antidote" and a “vaccine" susceptible of curing immoderate ailment for Mumbai Indians. Bumrah played a captious relation successful MI’s IPL 2025 Eliminator clash with Gujarat Titans connected Friday. He proved the quality successful a high-scoring brushwood held successful Mullanpur.

“He’s similar an antidote, a vaccine that tin cure immoderate unwellness a bowling broadside tin have," Aaron said connected ESPNcricinfo‘s Time Out aft Bumrah‘s captious breakthrough and economical spell of 1/27 helped MI look triumphant by 20 runs aft posting a mammoth 228/6.

With opener Sai Sudharsan (80) and Washington Sundar (48) flourishing successful their third-wicket partnership, GT matched MI stride for stride successful the pursuit until Bumrah delivered a pinpoint yorker that deed the basal of the stumps and dismissed Sundar.

His 2nd spell pushed the required complaint beyond the Titans’ reach, allowing the remainder of the MI bowling onslaught to tighten the screws and restrict the absorption to 208/6.

The scorecard failed to bespeak Bumrah’s existent impact, but helium played a important relation successful securing a Qualifier 2 berth for the five-time champions.

Aaron noted Bumrah’s adaptability to each situations and lauded his courageousness aft witnessing a defining infinitesimal wherever the 31-year-old told an anxious manager Mahela Jayawardene to calm down earlier producing an unplayable yorker successful the 14th implicit against Washington.

Bumrah came from implicit the wicket, caught the left-hander connected the shuffle, and shattered the basal of limb stump to crook the crippled connected its head.

“If you privation wickets, helium comes and gets you wickets. If you privation to halt runs, helium stops runs for you. Man, what a bowler," Aaron said. “And the content helium has successful his ability. You person an planetary manager [Mahela Jayawardene] who is panicking due to the fact that his bowlers person abruptly started to spell to the cleaners, and helium conscionable turns astir and is similar ‘Just calm down, I’ll bash the occupation for you.’ Comes in, runs in, gets deed for a six and past gets that ball."

“For him to vessel from that space is difficult. It’s easier for him to spell wide to a left-hand batter, but for him to people that limb stump of Washington Sundar… Washi was mounting up for thing wide oregon thing successful his arc, but that was conscionable intolerable to negotiate."

The game-changing infinitesimal took Bumrah’s tally for the play to 18 wickets successful 11 innings astatine an system complaint of 637. The experienced seamer volition stay MI’s top plus erstwhile they question to Ahmedabad for different must-win crippled against the Punjab Kings connected Sunday.

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