The 2024 ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year is awarded to India’s premier paceman, Jasprit Bumrah. In 2024, Bumrah snared 71 wickets in 357 overs in 13 matches at an average of 14.92. Bumrah’s 71 victims in 2024 put himself in the category of only the fourth Indian bowler after Ravichandran Ashwin, Anil Kumble, and Kapil Dev to take over 70 wickets in Test cricket in a year. These numbers combined to enable himself to get to this prestigious award at the expense of competition from Sri Lanka’s Kamindu Mendis and England’s batting duo of Harry Brook and Joe Root.
This was a year of the Brazilian bucket that bore delights at home and beyond, whereas for 2025 World Test Championship Final cut-off; he proved to be the backbone for the Indian team, although ultimately, of course, that dream remains unfinished.
In 2024 Bumrah had a great start along with eight wickets in the famous win in South Africa in Cape Town. Further, he finished with a total of 19 from a 4-1 win against England in India. The performance of the year for him here was a match haul of nine wickets in India winning the Visakhapatnam Test eventually.
The best performance from Tests in 2024 was clearly during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Series with Australia, where he took 32 wickets from five Test matches at 13.06 and a strike rate of 28.37 in honor of the Player of the Series.
Bumrah attained 200 Test wickets during the Australian series, the 12th toxic bowler from India to do this, yet India’s struggle for the series win ended in being thrashed 3-1.
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Jasprit Bumrah’s phenomenal performance with the ball came in Perth when the pacer knocked over 8 batters across 2 innings including a five wicket haul in the second innings helping India to beat Australia by 295 runs in Perth.
Bumrah also became one of the rare bowlers in world cricket who picked 200 wickets at an average of 19.4.
