The exception to this has been Bob Willis. EnglandCourtney Walsh for West Indies, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis for Pakistan and most recently Pat Cummins for Australia. Kapil Dev, Shaun Pollock, Ian Botham and Imran Khan were also fast bowlers, but they were also all-rounders of considerable pedigree.
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Rohit Sharma’s second RT-PCR test has also come positive. Addressing a virtual media conference on Wednesday, India’s coach Rahul Dravid Decided to be cautious about Bumrah’s rise and Rohit’s exclusion.
“Rohit is being monitored by our medical team. He hasn’t been rejected yet. He needs to get a negative test to be available. So we will keep monitoring it, because we still have 36 hours. We will have a test later tonight and may have one tomorrow and see ya. It is really for the medical team to decide,” Dravid said.
Asked if Bumrah will be the captain on Friday, he said, “It is better who is the captain, it is confirmed by official sources. I don’t want to take that liberties.”
But if Bumrah walks out for the toss, he will make a good choice as problem-solving ability is something he possesses and the calmness he has in his nerves makes him an ideal leadership option. In fact, in Australia, once Kohli went back to India on paternity leave after the Adelaide Test, he and R Ashwin would turn to captain Ajinkya Rahane whenever he needed advice.
Bumrah would often go to newcomers like Navdeep Saini and Mohammad Siraj to tell them what they needed to work and what lengths they needed. He showed leadership off the field as well.
When he was injured in the final Test at the Gabba, Siraj was the first to hug after the seamer took a five-wicket haul.
When Bumrah was appointed as the vice-captain of KL Rahul during the white-ball leg of the South Africa tour, he was asked what would happen if Rohit was not yet given the Test captaincy as a full-time captain.
“If given a chance, you will think about it… It will be an honor and there is no greater feeling than this,” Bumrah said.
The opportunity seems to have arrived, albeit under unfortunate circumstances.