India are set to renew their rivalry against Australia in an ICC tournament on Monday, 24 June. India are set to play the 2021 champions in their final Super 8 clash of the T20 World Cup 2024. India come into the game unbeaten, courtesy of their superb bowling performance throughout the tournament. Fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has been the star of the show from the very start, scalping 10 wickets at a ridiculous economy of 3.42 runs per over. Speaking about the clash on Star Sports, Piyush Chawla and Paul Collingwood unanimously agreed that Jasprit Bumrah could turn out to be the difference maker in the India vs Australia clash given the superb form that he had been in throughout the tournament. The former England captain – Collingwood – said that Bumrah could put the Australian openers in real trouble in Monday’s clash.
“Jasprit Bumrah is the big point of difference in this World Cup. He is the person who would be on any team sheet. He is somebody who can take a lot of wickets. And I think when you’ve got a player like that in your rank and bowl four overs; I think Australia are probably in a little bit of trouble. I can imagine that he would be putting them under a serious amount of pressure, but it’s going to be a great one to watch,” Paul Collingwood said on Star Sports.
Former India spinner Chawla stressed on Bumrah’s ability to use the pitch extremely well and his knack for reading the conditions.
“Whenever he steps onto the field, he brings his A-game out. And we have seen what he can do with the ball surface doesn’t matter for him because we have seen what he has done in the US where the wickets were seaming around and when we came to the Caribbean, the way he bowled, he used the pitch really well with the good effect. He used his cutters and then his pace-on deliveries and he’s somebody who can bowl yorkers at will. But he knows when there is something in the pitch for the bowler and he didn’t even try to use those yorkers against Bangladesh. Those four overs are very, very crucial,” Chawla said while speaking on the same panel.
