Jasprit Bumrah is the ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year for 2024

By Prakhar Sachdeo

Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has won the prestigious Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year for 2024.

Jasprit Bumrah is the fifth Indian to receive the award. Before Bumrah Rahul Dravid (2004), Sachin Tendulkar (2010), Ravichandran Ashwin (2016) and Virat Kohli (2017, 2018) have been named the men’s Cricketer of the Year.

Bumrah dominated T20Is and Tests in equal measure. He spearhead India’s challenged in the ICC Men’s T20I World Cup as he picked 15 wickets in the tournament and was adjudged Player of the Tournament.

In Tests Bumrah picked 71 wickets in 13 matches in 2024, the most by a bowler in the calendar year. Bumrah’s 71 wickets is the second-most by Indian pacer in a year after Kapil Dev.

The 31-year is currently the no.1 ranked bowler in Tests and is no.7 of the ODI bowling ranking charts. “The pacer’s brilliance was reflected in his ICC Test Bowling Rankings, where he crossed the elusive 900-point mark, ending the year with a record-breaking 907 points – the highest for any Indian bowler in history,” the ICC stated in its tribute.

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Jasprit Bumrah named ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year for 2024