St John's [Antigua and Barbuda]: Star seamer Jasprit Bumrah on Saturday during the opening Test match between India and West Indies broke multiple records. He has also become the quickest Indian seam bowler to bag fifty wickets in the longest format of the game after he dismissed Darren Bravo in the 30th over of the Windies innings.
Bumrah had Darren Bravo plum in front and as a result, the left-hander was adjudged leg-before wicket (LBW).
The 25-year-old recorded 50 Test wickets in his 11th match for the team in the longest format of the game.
The pacer has gone past Ventakesh Prasad and Mohammad Shami. Both Prasad and Shami had reached the milestone in 13 Test matches.
Fewest Tests to 50 wickets for India (pacers):
11 J BUMRAH
13 V Prasad/ Mohd Shami
14 I Pathan/ S Sreesanth
16 K Ghavri/ Kapil Dev
Bumrah also surpassed spin wizard Ravichandran Ashwin and in the process became Indian bowler with fewest deliveries to reach 50 Test wickets mark.
While Bumrah reached the feat in just 2464 balls, Ashwin had taken 2597 balls to touch the mark of fifty wickets.
Fewest balls to 50 wickets for India:
2465 Jasprit BUMRAH
2597 R Ashwin
2606 Karsan Ghavri
2694 Umesh Yadav
2753 Mohd Shami
It is also notable that even though Bumrah had taken fewer deliveries than Ashwin to touch the mark of fifty wickets in red-ball cricket, the spinner is still the quickest to reach the same record in terms of number of matches played.
While Bumrah took 11 matches to bagged his 50th Test wicket, Ashwin had done the same in just nine innings.
Fewest Tests to 50 wickets for India:
09 R Ashwin
10 A Kumble
11 N Hirwani/ Harbhajan/ J BUMRAH
12 Subash Gupte/ BS Chandrasekhar/ EAS Prasanna
