5 special deliveries by Jasprit Bumrah in Tests this year

Jasprit Bumrah
Jasprit Bumrah

#2 Keaton Jennings - LBW - 4th Test, Ageas Bowl

4th Test, Ageas Bowl
4th Test, Ageas Bowl

It would be tempting to put this in the number one slot as it was an exceptional delivery and undoubtedly one of the best dismissals of the year.

Bumrah bowled three out-swingers to Jennings in the first over and the opener shouldered arms to those deliveries which were going away.

In his second over, Bumrah bowled an explosive in-swinger and generated massive movement of the surface. Jennings was completely bamboozled as he lost his shape and left a ball that came in and crashed onto his back leg trapping him right in front of middle stump. Bumrah started off celebrating and Jennings didn't bother waiting either.

#1 Shaun Marsh - LBW - 3rd Test, Melbourne

3rd Test, Melbourne
3rd Test, Melbourne

In the third Test at Melbourne, Australia were 89 for three in reply to India's mammoth 443. It was the last ball of the first session on Day 3 and Rohit Sharma who captains Bumrah in Mumbai Indians suggested the yorker machine to try a slower delivery at Marsh's shoes.

What followed next left the cricketing world wonderstruck! Bumrah bowled a slow dipping yorker which hit Shaun Marsh flush on his pads. Marsh, who was not expecting such a delivery lost his shape and fell forward as he was too early in playing the shot. Umpire Ian Gould had no hesitation in ruling Marsh out.

If Jennings's LBW was special, then this was mesmerizing.

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