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Jasprit Bumrah’s 2.0 Version Seems To Be Upsetting A Lot Of People Including Dale Steyn


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When Jasprit Bumrah was first spotted by the former head coach of the Indian cricket team, Ravi Shastri, he was a young lad who couldn’t grow a proper beard but had the potential to dominate the game across all formats of the game.

Regardless of whatever was happening on the field, Bumrah somehow managed to keep the ever-pleasing smile on his face. Be it the umpires missing out on a plum of a call or one of his teammates dropping a dolly, the pacer stayed calm and rarely frowned.

Soon enough, his happy face became a benchmark for the emphatic Indian cricket fans on social media who started making jokes and memes about how the unorthodox bowler stuck to his demeanour even under the most stressful situations, but all those jokes were out of the love and comfort of seeing their favourite bowler ever-so-joyous expressions.

But then, a couple of months ago, something changed in the 28-year-old when he started butting heads with England’s Jos Butler on Day 5 of the Lord’s Test. 

While the initial reason for the exchange between the two international cricketers was unknown, the fact that Bumrah stood his ground and confronted an opposing cricketer seemed to stun a lot of the fans.

Some welcomed this change with open arms were others stuck with the narrative of cricket being the game of gentlemen and criticised the Indian pacer for lowering his standards.

Now, once again, during the second Test match between India and South Africa, Bumrah found himself in the middle of a similar situation and reacted the same way. 

After sustaining multiple hits off bouncers being delivered by the Protea series debutant and Mumbai Indians teammate, Marco Jansen while batting as a tailender, Bumrah walked up to him in frustration and shared a few words of competition himself.

𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗮 𝗯𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲

Marco Jansen and Jasprit Bumrah having a bit of a standoff

Stream #SAvIND live: https://t.co/1CmkQ0hcp7 pic.twitter.com/Tj2kgsycMw

— SuperSport (@SuperSportTV) January 5, 2022

And once again, people, including some of the popular faces of international cricket like Dale Steyn and Sanjay Manjrekar expressed their issues with the way Bumrah behaved.

On Twitter, for instance, South African legend Steyn responded to a post about the angry looks being exchanged between Jansen and Bumrah while criticising the latter for not being able to take the hits with a cool and calm head.

I swear I remember Bumrah doing the same thing to a Mr James Anderson not too long ago.
Learn to take it kid.

— Dale Steyn (@DaleSteyn62) January 5, 2022

“This anger thing is interesting. It happened in England as well. I don’t like this side of Bumrah. It’s a side of Bumrah I don’t want to see too much of. I like it when things get really hot, he has a smile on his face, like he usually does,” Manjrekar said in an interaction with ESPNcricinfo.

To look at Bumrah getting angry is definitely something new and it is a human tendency to not be okay when things change. However, for famed cricketers like Steyn, who is a pacer, and has had his share of arguments, to call him out like that is highly unhealthy for the game of cricket and bowling as a whole. 

It would have been interesting to see if Steyn would have said something similar if it was his former RCB teammate Virat Kohli talking trash with Jansen or would he have complimented him for bringing the competition to the field.


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