England had no answer to Bumrah’s brilliant bowling: Hussain – Dainik Savera Times

He presented a spectacular display of reverse swing and took six wickets in England’s first innings. After this, he got three successes in the second innings. Bumrah took nine wickets for 91 runs in this match. Hussain wrote in his column for ‘Sky Sports’, “I think Bumrah’s magical bowling made a big difference between the two teams.

He got three wickets today (Monday), but in the first innings he bowled incredible spades and took six wickets for 45 runs. Due to this, the England team was bowled out for 253 runs on a flat pitch. Bumrah’s bowling and young Yashasvi Jaiswal’s (209 runs) double century in the first innings were the main attractions of India’s victory in Visakhapatnam.

Hussain believes that England’s batsmen had no answer to Bumrah’s bowling. He said, “Sometimes you can be critical of your team, look at your performance and say, ‘What could we have done better?’ But sometimes you have to respect the opponent team and say that their talent has impressed them.

“Exactly the same thing happened,” Hussain said. That spell of Bumrah in the first innings of England was brilliant. The reverse swing, with its slightly unorthodox action and the way it leans towards the off side, creates a good angle. Bumrah had first dismissed Joe Root for the eighth time in Test cricket before thrashing Ollie Pope, who was in great form in England’s first innings, with a yorker.

“He is dominating Joe Root at the moment,” Hussain said. He has dismissed him eight times in Test cricket. He bowled Ollie Pope on a brilliant inbound yorker. He also bowled Ben Stokes from round the wicket and the England captain dropped his bat in disbelief.