2024 Rewind: How the year went for Jasprit Bumrah?

Ace Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah had his best time on the cricketing field in the year 2024. The right-arm pacer excelled in every format of the game and went on to deliver match-winning spells on many occasions to turn the game around for his team. Bumrah showed his great form from the start of the year with a six-wicket haul in a Test match against South Africa in Cape Town as India registered a famous 7-wicket win.

After that, Jasprit Bumrah also made headlines for his performance in a five-match home Test series against England. He finished as the third-highest wicket taker in a series mostly dominated by the spin bowlers. Bumrah scalped 19 wickets in four Test matches against England. After that, the fast bowler also had a great time with the ball in IPL 2024 where he came third in the list of leading wicket takers of the season with 20 scalps in 13 matches.

Jasprit Bumrah’s best moment of 2024 came in June when India lifted the T20 World Cup title after 17 years and ended their 11-year-old ICC trophy drought. Bumrah played a crucial part in India’s World Cup win and was adjudged player of the tournament with 15 scalps in eight matches. Recently, Jasprit Bumrah also became the leading wicket-taker of the ongoing World Test Championship cycle from 2023 to 2025. The fast bowler has scalped 63 wickets in 13 matches of the 2023-25 WTC Cycle so far. He is also at the top in the list of bowlers to take most wickets in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy down under. 

Jasprit Bumrah in 2024

After being absent from professional cricket due to injury before the first half of 2023, Jaspirit Bumrah turned out to be a match-winner and had a memorable year with the ball in 2024. The 31-year-old is regarded as the best bowler of the current generation and has proved it every time by turning the match around with his unplayable deliveries and tow-crushing yorkers. He is currently the number one Test bowler in the world and comes seventh in the ODI ranking. Let’s have a look at his stats across formats in 2024. 

In Tests

In T20Is

In total, Jasprit Bumrah has played 12 Test matches and eight T20Is in the year 2024, He hasn’t played a single ODI match this year. The right-arm has taken 77 across all formats in the year 2024.