Dawid Malan on Bumrah: Wasn’t great to see him take wickets, but a great watch
Hindustan TimesIndia’s battery of fast bowlers in the just-ended series was far superior to any pace attack they have put on show in England. On Day 5 of The Oval Test, England No.3 Dawid Malan had just returned to the dressing room after being run out when Jasprit Bumrah came on to bowl with a 60-overs old ball. “His pace was a lot quicker in that spell than it was in the first spell he bowled that morning, which just shows when he has sniffed an opportunity…he took that you know, that’s what good bowlers do,” Malan said while promoting Gonuts, a celebrity commerce platform. “It wasn’t great to see him taking wickets, but a great watch…how he was bowling, moving the ball both ways at that pace, bowling yorkers and bouncers…it was a hell of a spell of fast bowling.” Even with Malan’s uncomplicated technique, standing upright with minimum trigger movements, the batsman says Bumrah forces one to make small tweaks. So, it’s just about trying to find a way to be able to blunt him when he is having one of those really good spells.” With the series having ended prematurely and Malan having pulled out of IPL, his next encounter with Bumrah could be in the T20 World Cup.