NEW DELHI: Having scented blood with the key scalp of
Joe Root
in the previous over, India pace spearhead
Jasprit Bumrah
bowled a toe-crushing yorker to dismiss England's
Ollie Pope
in the second session of the second day of the second Test at
Visakhapatnam
on Saturday.
Bumrah first set up
Root
brilliantly with deliveries that swung away and then bowled a much straighter ball adding to the confusion of Root, who just hung his bat in the corridor of uncertainty.
Root poked at the ball expecting it to come but the ball angled away taking the edge and flew straight to
Shubman Gill
at first slip.
Bumrah greeted the next man in
Jonny Bairstow
with a 140.6 clicks yorker angling onto the boots. Bairstow was late in bringing his bat down and the ball deflected off his boots to deep backward square leg. The Indians thought about taking the review but decided against it and the replays showed that the ball was missing leg-stump.
In his next over,
Bumrah
did what he was trying to do and that too against the batsman who was well-set batting on 23 - Ollie
Pope
- who had won the first Test for England with a magnificent 196.
Bumrah didn't even go wide of the crease, but out of his hands came out a beaming inswinging yorker at more than 140 clicks, aimed at the boots of Pope, who before this delivery, was hardly disturbed by anything.
In an effort to save his boots, Pope almost fell on the ground, tried to bring his bat down, but by then the ball had crashed into the middle and leg stumps that went flying away, much to the delight of Bumrah, his teammates and the
Vizag
crowd.
BCCI shared a video of the breathtaking delivery on X:
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