Bumrah yorker: Watch Ben Stokes barely survives against Jasprit Bumrah’s pinpoint delivery in Chennai

Dixit Bhargav | 06/02/2021
Bumrah yorker: Watch Ben Stokes barely survives against Jasprit Bumrah's pinpoint delivery in Chennai

Bumrah yorker: The Indian fast bowler was extremely unfortunate to not dismiss the English vice-captain at the Chepauk.

During the second day of the first Test of the ongoing England’s tour of India in Chennai, India fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah bowled an absolute jaffa to England vice-captain Ben Stokes.

Bowling from around the stumps to the left-hand batsman in the 92nd over, Bumrah’s pinpoint yorker went with the angle into Stokes. Despite trying his best to bring the bat down on time, Stokes barely managed to prevent the ball from hitting the stumps.

On any other day, Bumrah would have added to his tally of Test wickets with such a delivery but was extremely unfortunate to not dismiss Stokes on this particular occasion as fortune favoured the batsman today.

Stokes, who came out to bat at No. 5 to accompany captain Joe Root this morning, scored a brisk 23rd Test half-century to further strengthen his team’s position at the MA Chidambaram Stadium.

India, who have been constantly erring on the field since the tour of Australia, gave a couple of chances to Stokes. While spinner Ravichandran Ashwin dropped Stokes off his own bowling, Cheteshwar Pujara put him down at mid-wicket off Shahbaz Nadeem.

Root, who crossed the 150-run mark while playing second fiddle to Stokes, continued to remain unperturbed by all changes made by the Indian team in the first session. The two senior English batsmen have added close to 100 runs for the fourth wicket now.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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