Australia cricket legend Ricky Ponting has predicted India’s fast-bowling spearhead Jasprit Bumrah to be the main wicket-taker within the upcoming Males’s T20 World Cup within the West Indies and the USA. Bumrah had missed the 2022 version of the match in Australia on account of a again harm, which later wanted surgical procedure. Bumrah comes into the showpiece occasion after taking 20 wickets in 13 video games for Mumbai Indians, with an astonishing economic system fee of 6.48, ending third within the Purple Cap race.
“My main wicket-taker for the match shall be Jasprit Bumrah. I simply assume an excellent performer, contributor for various years now. He is simply come off an excellent IPL. What he can do with the brand new ball, he swings the brand new ball, he has the seam up.
“His economic system fee on the finish of the IPL was lower than seven runs an over. He takes wickets. He does bowl lots of the laborious overs too. Once you bowl the laborious overs in T20 cricket, it offers you an opportunity to choose up lots of wickets alongside the best way. So, I am going with him,” Ponting instructed The ICC Assessment present.
He additionally believes Australia’s left-handed opener Travis Head could possibly be the highest run-scorer within the upcoming match. Head, the Participant of the Match in final 12 months’s ODI World Cup remaining, scored 567 runs in 15 matches for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2024 at a strike-rate of 191.55, although he struggled for runs on the again finish of the match.
“My prediction for the main run-scorer shall be Travis Head. I simply assume all the pieces he is carried out, whether or not it’s red-ball or white-ball within the final couple of years, has been of the best high quality. I feel he is taking part in fearless cricket in the intervening time.
“His IPL had its ups and downs, however when it has been good, it has been excellent. And it has received video games of cricket for his crew. And it will be precisely the identical for Australia – so, look, he may not be essentially the most constant on the best way by means of this match.
“However he’ll be proper up there, I am positive, with the main run scorers. And as I’ve mentioned, if he spends any period of time on the wicket for Australia, he’ll win extra video games than ever,” added Ponting.
The 2024 Males’s T20 World Cup will start on June 1, with the opening match between co-hosts USA and Canada at Dallas. Australia will open their marketing campaign towards Group B opponents Oman on the Kensington Oval in Barbados on June 5. India additionally play their first recreation of the competitors on the identical day, towards Eire on the Nassau County Worldwide Stadium in New York.
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