'Jasprit Bumrah 1,000 times better...': Kapil Dev praises 'outstanding' Indian cricket team

Bumrah, who has been doing exceptionally good successful the ongoing T20 World Cup, snaring 11 wickets astatine an outstanding system of 4.08 successful the 23 overs helium has bowled truthful far. Bumrah, presently considered the apical pacer successful planetary cricket, has participated successful 26 Tests for India, claiming 159 wickets with an system complaint of little than three.

"Bumrah is 1000 times amended than me. These young boys are acold amended than us. We had much experience. They are better," Kapil told quality bureau PTI.

Lauding the wide fittingness levels of the existent nationalist cricket team, Kapil said, “They are precise good. Outstanding. They are fitter."

"They are overmuch much hardworking. They are fantastic," helium added.

The cricket fable besides said the corporate performance, and not idiosyncratic brilliance, volition beryllium the cardinal origin successful deciding whether Rohit Sharma-led squad India tin extremity its over-a-decade-long trophy drought.

"Why speech astir lone Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, oregon Kuldeep Yadav? Everybody has a relation to play. Their occupation is to triumph the tournament," Kapil told PTI.

"To triumph a match, an unusual idiosyncratic tin travel out, but to triumph a tourney everybody has to enactment together. If we are going to beryllium connected Bumrah oregon Arshdeep, past you are going to suffer it," helium asserted.

Kapil besides wished squad India bully luck up of their semi-final lucifer against England and hoped that the Men successful Blue clinch the trophy.

"All the Best, bully luck, I anticipation the Indian players, the mode they are playing support connected playing similar that, they should not person a atrocious time and beryllium retired of the tourney (like) what happened past clip successful the 50 overs World Cup," helium said.

Kapil ended his vocation with a past satellite grounds 434 Test wickets and is considered 1 the champion all-rounders of each clip who besides claimed 253 ODI scalps. The 65-year-old had led India to their maiden World Cup rubric successful 1983.

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Published: 27 Jun 2024, 08:19 PM IST