India Bowling Coach Explains Why he Didn’t Change Jasprit Bumrah’s Unconventional Bowling Action

Jasprit Bumrah
Jasprit Bumrah

One of the noteworthy highlights that one notification while viewing Jasprit Bumrah bowl is his strange activity. There has been sufficient investigation and forecast over how his style causes him to create the pace and precision or how it could be inconvenient over the long haul.

Be that as it may, the truth of the matter is Bumrah has been one of the best quick bowlers India has created as of late and a few legends of the game have named him as ‘world-class’. He has a five-wicket pull in South Africa, England, West Indies and Australia inside two years of his Test presentation and structures an essential piece of Indian pace assault.

One of those credited for Indian quick bowlers exhibitions has been their bowling trainer Bharat Arun who has clarified how he never attempted to fiddle with Bumrah’s eccentric activity.

“If bowlers having unconventional action are being effective, then I wouldn’t recommend changing their action,” Arun said on Inside Out, a show hosted by India women team coach WV Raman.

Jasprit Bumrah with Indian Bowling Coach

However, he does admit that the 26-year-old’s action will put strain and effort on his body and that requires a different approach as far as his workload management and training goes.

“We knew that Bumrah has an unconventional action,” he said. “So there will be a lot of strain and effort which he would be putting on his body. So, we have been preparing in such a way so that his body can take the rigours of an unconventional action.”

Arun says that there was no guarantee that Bumrah would be able to perform at the level he has been should his action be changed. “Changing his bowling style might not have guaranteed the bowler’s performance at his optimum level. So rather than trying to change him, we might as well make him stronger physically in all the different parameters of fitness so that he can take the rigours of conventional action,” he said.

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