‘Rohit Sharma is not rigid, MS Dhoni doesn’t believe in planning, Virat Kohli is energy-driven’ – Jasprit Bumrah | Cricket News – Times of India

Jasprit Bumrah has performed below three of the very best captains Indian cricket has ever had. If he advanced below MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli made him keen about his job and Rohit Sharma has given him the liberty. Amid all that severe enterprise, Bumrah by no means misplaced his sense of humour. “There are nice captains, however I will take my title — I’m my favorite captain,” he says.
In a current interview with The Indian Specific, Bumrah mirrored upon the captains he has performed below and the way every of them remained distinctive in their very own method.
Whereas it appears he has been with the Indian crew for eternity, the 30-year-old quick bowler has solely performed 36 Assessments to this point and is but to the touch the mark of hundred caps in ODIs and T20Is — blame it on the Covid-forced break and hassle together with his again. Nevertheless, it places his chic abilities and willingness to study rapidly into perspective.

Bumrah credit that studying to what every of the captains he has performed below dropped at the crew.
“Rohit is among the few captains who has empathy in the direction of bowlers, regardless of being a batsman. He understands gamers’ feelings and is aware of what a participant goes by way of. Rohit isn’t inflexible, he’s open to suggestions,” Bumrah informed the newspaper concerning the 2024 T20 World Cup-winning skipper.

Bumrah made his debut below Dhoni in an ODI in Sydney towards Australia in January 2016 and offers credit score to Dhoni for making him really feel safe as soon as his Indian Premier League heroics earned him an India call-up.
“MS (Dhoni) gave me a variety of safety, rapidly,” he mentioned, suggesting that it helped him discover his ft within the worldwide enviornment. “He has a variety of religion in his intuition, and doesn’t imagine in a variety of planning.”

Speaking about Kohli as skipper, Bumrah credited him for placing a variety of emphassis on health. He mentioned Kohli continues to guide the crew in sure methods, whereas Rohit was the all-format designated skipper earlier than retiring from the T20Is publish the World Cup earlier this 12 months.
Rohit now leads in Assessments and ODIs, whereas Suryakumar Yadav has been appointed the skipper for T20Is.
“Virat is energy-driven, passionate, wears his coronary heart on his sleeve,” mentioned Bumrah. “He pushed us by way of health and altered the narrative that method. Now Virat isn’t the captain, however he’s nonetheless a frontrunner. Captaincy is a publish, however a crew is run by 11 individuals.”