r/Cricket • u/5missedcallsfromBCCI 1983 Prudential World Cup Champions • 21d ago

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

https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/tendulkar-slams-bumrah-trolls-just-a-coincidence-that-india-won-tests-he-didnt-play-10172846/
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u/spongey1865 Somerset 21d ago

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.

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u/causaloptimist 21d ago

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.

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u/Black_Mamba265 India 20d ago

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

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u/barath_s 20d ago

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

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u/Black_Mamba265 India 20d ago

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