Adam Gilchrist Compares Jasprit Bumrah To Sir Donald Bradman

Australian legend Adam Gilchrist feels India and Mumbai Indians (MI)’s ace paceman Jasprit Bumrah is the Sir Donald Bradman of bowling. Bumrah missed the first four games of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, and MI lost three of those encounters. Since his comeback, MI have won six of their last seven encounters and are now at the top of the IPL 2025 points table.

Bumrah has claimed 11 wickets in seven games at an average of 15.3 and an economy rate of 7 despite bowling the tough overs for his team. Amongst bowlers who have bowled at least 25 overs in the IPL 2025, Bumrah has the second-best economy after Kuldeep Yadav (6.74).

"He's maybe the best bowler, fast bowler of all time. When you start stacking up the statistics and the varying conditions that he has to go out and execute those skills in, I guess you look at Sir Donald Bradman's numbers compared to his peers, and he's just so far ahead,” Gilchrist said on Cricbuzz.

“I think Bumrah is sort of in that category across all the different variations that you get in conditions and pitches that you've got to bowl on. He's significantly further ahead than the peers around him, so that tells you we are truly watching greatness.”

Even in the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia, it was Bumrah who helped India fight back against Pat Cummins and Co. The right-arm paceman took 32 wickets in five Tests at an insane average of 13.1 and a strike rate of 28.4, studded with two four-wicket and three five-wicket hauls.

"A seamer from India, consistently throughout, particularly the series that we just saw in the summer, back home in the Australian summer, no, I don't think so. We just sat and watched in awe at close range commentating on that series and again, I know it's a different format, but he is the best all-format bowler; that's nothing to argue there.”