Follow UsIn a high-scoring game where every bowler was taken apart, Jasprit Bumrah finished with figures of 1/27 and an economy rate of 6.80 on May 30 (Friday). It was yet again an exhibition of high-class bowling as the Indian speedster accounted for Washington Sundar with a toe-crushing yorker, which set up a 20-run win for the Mumbai Indians against the Gujarat Titans in the Eliminator.
Watch: Jasprit Bumrah Ends Washington Sundar's Stay With Toe-Crushing Yorker
It wasn’t the first time that Hardik Pandya had to summon Bumrah’s powers, and it will not be the last time, as the pacer has scalped 18 wickets in the season, averaging just 15.33. In the aftermath of yet another Bumrah-led heist for MI, CSK star Ravichandran Ashwin lauded the pacer for being a ‘cheat code’.
“I had tweeted during the T20 World Cup that Bumrah is a cheat code in today's T20 cricket. Have you ever played this road rash, NFS game? It's a cheat code," Ashwin said on his YouTube channel ‘Ash Ki Baat’.
"This game could have gone even closer if Jasprit Bumrah's over didn't happen. The asking rate was like 12, 13, 14 but he gave like 7 or 8 runs in his last two overs. Rahul Tewatia hit him for a six, but still, the way he came back and gave one run in the next two balls, that defines Bumrah.”
Interestingly, Ashwin also commented, stating that Bumrah makes any captain ‘look better’ than they are, as MI beat GT to set up a date with PBKS in Qualifier 2 for a place in the IPL 2025 final.
"If you play these games, you can enter a code, and you can run faster. You can beat everyone else. It's a cheat code. In today's world, as a captain, sometimes I feel Jasprit Bumrah makes a captain look better than they actually are. The way he nails those yorkers, changes up his slower balls, all that said and done, I think Mumbai also went to yorkers very early," he added.
Bumrah is sixth on the Purple Cap list, with 18 wickets, and has a real possibility of single-handedly bowling MI to their sixth IPL title. But for that to happen, they will first have to defeat PBKS on June 1 (Sunday).