Sam kontas poor performance in west indies: Australia’s only 19-year-old player Sam Contus made a lot of headlines in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. Sam had beaten Jasprit Bumrah, one of the best bowlers in the world in his debut test. Bumrah was given 16 runs in a single over to this player, but now Sam’s condition in the West Indies has worsened. Sam was in the West Indies to score one run. Because of which they may now have to lose the place from the Test team.

Beating Bumrah, but failed in front of West Indies bowlers

Sam had troubled Bumrah on his debut against India. Sam was playing ramp shot like T20 on Bumrah’s bowling. Sam was also successful in this. Sam hit both a four and six. Sam hit 16 runs in a single over to Bumrah. At the same time, in his 60 -run innings, Sam scored 34 runs in 33 balls against Bumrah. However, Bumrah took revenge by hitting Sam boldly in the second innings.

Sam was in discussion everywhere after the series against India. Sam is considered to be the Australian team Future Star. But the condition of this star player worsened as soon as he went out of Australia. The Australian team is currently on a tour of West Indies. Two matches of the three -match Test series have been played between Australia and West Indies. During this time Sam’s performance has been very poor.

Sam was able to score 8 runs in the first Test, including both innings. In the first innings, Sam scored 3 runs and 5 runs in the second innings. At the same time, Sam scored 25 runs in the second Test. Sam scored 25 runs in the first innings. In the second innings, he could not even open his account. Sam scored just 33 runs in a total of four innings. During this time his average was just 8.25.

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ICC Test Bowling Rankings: The ICC has recently released the latest ranking of Test bowlers. Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah remains at number one in this list. Bumrah is the only Indian bowler in the top-5 rankings of bowlers in Tests. Australia have two bowlers in the Top-5 list. At the same time, a bowler of South Africa and Pakistan team is in this list. This time only one change has been seen in the rankings.

ICC Test Rankings Top-5 bowlers

Jaspreet Bumrah: Indian bowler Bumrah is one of the best bowlers in the world. Bumrah is currently occupied at number one with ratings of 907. Bumrah recently took 32 wickets in 5 matches against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. After this, in the series against England, he also took five wickets hall.

Kagiso Rabada: South African fast bowler Rabada is second in this list with 859 rating points. Rabada recently bowled brilliantly in the final of the World Test Championship 2025 against Australia. Due to which South Africa took the title. Rabada took 9 wickets in the final.

Pat Cummins- Australia captain Pat Cummins ranks third in rankings with 846 rating points. Cummins took 25 wickets in the Border Gavaskar Trophy against India. At the same time, he also bowled well in the final of the World Test Championship. He took seven wickets in the final.

Josh Hazlewood- Australian fast bowler Hazlewood has bowled well in the ongoing Test series against the West Indies. He took 5 wickets hall in the first match. He took a total of seven wickets in the first match, due to which he has benefited by one rung. He is now at number four with 817 rating points.

Noman Ali: Pakistani bowler Noman Ali is the only spin bowler in the list of Top-5. Noman is at number five with 806 rating points. They have lost a place.

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India vs england test series: Under the captaincy of Shubman Gill, India lost the first Test against England, apart from fielding, India’s bowling was also bad. Except Jasprit Bumrah, no other bowler in the first innings could put pressure on the English batsmen. In the second innings, even Bumrah could not take any wicket. Although now Team India is eyeing the second Test, but before that the head coach Gautam Gambhir has given a big update about Bumrah.

After the defeat of the first Test, the head coach Gautam Gambhir himself came to answer the questions of the press, whose Indian Test team is not able to do well in coaching. The most important bowler on this tour is Jaspreet Bumrah, but due to workload management, he will play only 3 Tests. In the press conference, Gautam Gambhir also confirmed that there has been no change in the plan and despite the defeat in the first Test, Bumrah will now play in only 2 of the remaining matches.

What update did Gautam Gambhir give about Jaspreet Bumrah?

Gambhir said, “I think it is most important for us to manage the workload of Jaspreet Bumrah, because a lot of cricket is to be done and we know how important he is. So before coming on this tour, it was decided that he will play three Tests, but let’s see how his body is. But we have not decided which two other Tests will play.”

Will Bumrah not play Ind vs Eng 2nd Test?

Of course, Gautam Gambhir made it clear that it is not yet decided which 2 more Tests Bumrah will play but there is news that he will not play in the second Test. India vs England second Test will be played from July 2 at Edgbaston, Birmingham. There is news about Gambhir that he will not play in the second Test, he will play third and then in the last Test of the series.

Jasprit Bumrah took 5 wickets in the first innings of the first Test, no other bowler except him was able to put pressure on the England batsmen. The famous Krishna gave runs from more than 6 runs per over in the first and second innings. Mohammad Siraj also remained ineffective. Shardul Thakur and Ravindra Jadeja also failed. In such a situation, it has to be seen which bowler is included in the team in place of Jasprit Bumrah.