VIDEO | Shaun Marsh waits and waits and waits before Jasprit Bumrah traps him with a “spinner-like arm-ball”

The first session of the day was as much about the brilliance of Indian bowlers as it was the brilliance of Virat Kohli’s captaincy. Kohli, who was criticised for being defensive in his approach during India’s batting display, pulled up his socks with his bowling unit as they came out with clear plans and stuck to their guns to reduce Australia to four down in the first session. 

The most impressive of the lot was Jasprit Bumrah who made sure that Australia had a taste of their own medicine and used the “Mitchell Starc-Pat Cummins” template to put Aussie batsmen in a shell. But the dismissal of Shaun Marsh was a classic example of how to outfox a batsman by using high-level intelligence.

Bumrah bowled a 141 kph delivery on the penultimate ball of the session and was awaiting a similar type of delivery on the next ball as well. He too got into the position instantly to counter Bumrah’s ferocious yorkers. However, Bumrah, seeing him being in action already, dropped his speed by 30 km and almost made him wait for two to three seconds before the ball arrived. 

Marsh grew impatient and threw a wrong shot at it and as a result, the ball rapped him on the pads to catch him plumb in front. Umpire Ian Gould didn’t waste a second to raise his finger. It was a classic Bumrah dismissal and one that proved how far he has come as far as Test bowling is concerned.

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