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Jasprit Bumrah played 13 Test matches for India in 2024 and picked up 71 wickets, which includes 30 in the first four matches against Australia.
Jasprit Bumrah wins ICC Test Cricketer Of The Year 2024 Award. (Picture Credit: AFP)
Star Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah, who accounted for the dismissal of 71 batters in 13 Test matches last year, won the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year 2024 award on Monday, January 27. Bumrah was in red-hot form for India in the home series against England and the away series against Australia.
Bumrah kicked off the year 2024 with six wickets in the second innings of the Cape Town Test played against South Africa on January 4, 2024, and then picked up 19 wickets in four Tests against England. In the series opener played at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad, Bumrah dismissed six batters (2+4), and in the second Test at Vizag, he finished with nine wickets (6+3). His superb show with the ball in Visakhapatnam not only helped him win the Player of the Match award but also become world No. 1 Test bowler.
Bumrah finished the two-match series against Bangladesh in September-October with 11 wickets, and in the first two matches of the New Zealand series, he picked up three wickets.
In the absence of Rohit Sharma, Bumrah led India in the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and picked up eight wickets (5+3). Under his leadership, India hammered the Aussies by 295 runs inside four days to take a 1-0 lead in the series. Bumrah dismissed four Australian batters in the Day-Night Test played at Adelaide Oval from December 6-8 and finished with nine wickets each in the third (6+3) and fourth (4+5) Tests played at The Gabba and Melbourne Cricket Ground, respectively.
Bumrah’s performance in 2024 (Tests)
| RUNS | WICKETS (1st Innings) | WICKETS (2nd Innings) | OPPOSITION | VENUE | DATE |
| 0/DNB | 2 | 6 | South Africa | Cape Town | January 3-4 |
| 0/6* | 2 | 4 | England | Hyderabad | January 25-28 |
| 6/0 | 6 | 3 | England | Visakhapatnam | February 2-5 |
| 26/DNB | 1 | 1 | England | Rajkot | February 15-18 |
| 20 | 0 | 2 | England | Dharamsala | March 7-9 |
| 7/DNB | 4 | 1 | Bangladesh | Chennai | September 19-22 |
| 1*/DNB | 3 | 3 | Bangladesh | Kanpur | September 27-October 1 |
| 1/0 | 1 | 2 | New Zealand | Bengaluru | October 16-20 |
| 0/10* | 0 | 0 | New Zealand | Pune | October 24-26 |
| 8/DNB | 5 | 3 | Australia | Perth | November 22-25 |
| 0/2* | 4 | 0 | Australia | Adelaide | December 6-8 |
| 10*/DNB | 6 | 3 | Australia | Brisbane | December 14-18 |
| 0/0 | 4 | 5 | Australia | Melbourne | December 26-30 |
In addition to his bowling, Bumrah impressed with his batting as well in the first innings of the Brisbane Test and scored 10 runs as No. 10 batter to help India successfully avoid the follow-on.
Bumrah is the sixth Indian cricketer after Rahul Dravid, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Ravichandran Ashwin, and Virat Kohli to win the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year award. Dravid was the first-ever recipient. He bagged the top prize in 2004, Gautam won it in 2009, Sehwag in 2010, Ashwin in 2016, and Kohli in 2018.
Indians to win ICC Test Cricketer of the Year award
- Rahul Dravid – 2004
- Gautam Gambhir – 2009
- Virender Sehwag – 2010
- Ravichandran Ashwin – 2016
- Virat Kohli – 2018
- Jasprit Bumrah – 2024
For the top prize in 2024, Bumrah defeated the likes of Joe Root, Harry Brook, and Sri Lanka’s Kamindu Mendis. Former England Test captain Root scored 1556 runs and picked up 11 wickets in 17 Tests played last year, whereas Brook amassed a total of 1100 runs in 12 matches. Mendis, on the other hand, played nine matches and scored 1049 runs.
