Dubai: India’s peerless fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah was on Monday nominated for the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year award along with England’s prolific scorer Joe Root.
Another English batter Harry Brook and Sri Lanka’s Kamindu Mendis also featured in the list.
Bumrah has been the best bowler in Test cricket in 2024 with 71 wickets from 13 matches at an average of 14.92 and a strike rate of 30.16, the best figures for any bowler in the traditional format.
Bumrah had a stunning 2024 in the longest format of the game. In 13 matches, he took a whopping 71 wickets — one more than his combined tally for the last four years — at an average of 14.92. He recorded as many as five five-wicket hauls in the year, three in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia and one each against South Africa and England.
