Tendulkar slams Bumrah trolls: ‘just a coincidence that India won Tests he didn’t play’

[u/5missedcallsfromBCCI]

https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/tendulkar-slams-bumrah-trolls-just-a-coincidence-that-india-won-tests-he-didnt-play-10172846/

[u/spongey1865]

It's such a weird phenomenon. But sometimes something that seems like a pattern has no meaning. Bumrah is clearly awesome and in the future India will be more likely to win when he plays than when he doesn't.

It's a bit like India losing 15 tosses in a row. Sometimes statistical weirdness happens and there's no rhyme or reason to it.

[u/causaloptimist → u/spongey1865]

I think in this case there may be an actual explanation. I think Bumrah is just so good that the rest of the bowling unit and even some of the batting unit subconsciously doesn’t step up as much as they can. Siraj’s famous line “I only believe in Jassi bhai” captures the phenomenon. A similar thing happened at Gabba where the entire team was forced to step up due to key players sitting out.

[u/Black_Mamba265 → u/causaloptimist]

I actually think it’s different, due to how godly this man is batsmen try to just play him off and not take him on so they try to settle themselves with dots and singles during his overs instead and then go on to attack the other bowlers who are trying their best too but and I’ve seen this a lot this series with players like Siraj where even when they bowl well the fielding lets them down horribly. Take headingley for example Siraj was bowling as well as Bumrah he managed to get a lot of false shots against Root and etc but whenever he made those opportunities the fielding let him down

[u/g0_west → u/Black_Mamba265]

I think if Bumrah and Siraj could link up mentally they could become like Broad and Anderson in terms of working in two bowlers as one. Broad and Anderson often talk about how when they were bowling together they'd work the pressure to try and take a wicket between them rather than just themselves each trying to take solo wickets. If Siraj and Bumrah linked up like that they'd be unstoppable. For example if Bumrah can hold down the runs because the batters don't want to chance it against him, they can build that scoreboard pressure and Siraj can tempt them well enough to strike and get edge. I think we'll see it in the next few years (if Bumrahs body doesn't let him down), it seems like India is moving much more towards a team mindset than an individual one. They're the same age too

[u/Black_Mamba265 → u/g0_west]

I saw glimpses of that this series but nothing came of it because once again shitty fielding screwed the pooch if India is able to tighten their fielding and make it like we’re playing 11 Jadeja’s this could totally happen

[u/barath_s → u/Black_Mamba265]

I think one should consider bringing in Bumrah as a first change bowler ...Let's experiment with this.

[u/Black_Mamba265 → u/barath_s]

Giving Siraj that opportunity to be the main character improves him by leaps and bounds definitely they should look to experiment with this bowling attack either during home tests or the 2 matches vs NZ