NEW DELHI: Sam Konstas‘ dazzling Check debut on Day 1 of the Boxing Day Check threw India off guard on the Melbourne Cricket Floor on Thursday.
With the Border-Gavaskar Trophy nonetheless up for grabs with the sequence locked at 1-1, the Boxing Day Check might properly determine which the sequence will go.
{The teenager} scored a surprising fifty on debut earlier than Ravindra Jadeja trapped him leg earlier than wicket.
Greater than his runs, it was Konstas‘ audacity to tackle the world class Jasprit Bumrah with the brand new ball that had the consultants singing his eulogy.
Speaking to Channel Seven, India tempo spearhead Bumrah informed how he felt like bowling to Konstas.
Bumrah says within the video shared by 7Cricket, “I’ve skilled heaps of it. I’ve performed T20 cricket loads. Greater than 12 years of T20 cricket. Attention-grabbing batsman as properly, and I all the time felt I used to be within the sport, I by no means felt that I’m distant from a wicket. Initially I felt I might get him out 6-7 instances within the first two overs, however that is how cricket goes, some days it pays off, it appears to be like good, some days it would not, then you definately guys could be criticizing the identical individual. In order that’s how cricket is, I really like completely different challenges and all the time trying ahead to a brand new problem.”
Konstas hit Bumrah for 2 sixes throughout his knock. This was the primary time in three years that Bumrah was hit for a six in Check cricket.
On how taking part in in Australia brings the very best out of him, Bumrah stated, “Sure it all the time brings out the very best in me. I performed right here in my first Check tour in 2018, I made my ODI debut in 2016 right here as properly. It brings out quite a lot of challenges as properly as a result of the wickets are very flat, the Kookaburra ball does a bit of bit with the brand new ball however then would not do something, so your accuracy is examined, the climate can generally check your health, you persistence every little thing is examined. So when you come out on high, after that, it actually leaves you in an excellent house and you may turn into a greater cricketer.”
Steve Smith, who struck 140 in Australia’s opening innings, was additionally hailed by Bumrah as a troublesome batsman to bowl to.
“He (Smith) is all the time been a problem. He’s unorthodox, bit like me. He’s not a traditional batter, sometime he’s shuffling sometime not, so it brings out a brand new problem. He scores in several space of the bottom and so it’s important to be constant and bowl good balls ball after ball.
“I all the time had good battles with him in all codecs I performed towards him. Clearly, one of many greats of the sport and on this format he’s all the time troublesome to bowl,” he stated.
