India ace bowler Jasprit Bumrah, who got a much-deserved break after the 2019 World Cup as he was rested for the limited-overs series against West Indies, bagged the 2019 Youth Icon award at the ‘Forbes India 30 Under 30’ event in Mumbai on Friday.
Bumrah at the event said that he is decent with his ability to bowl yorkers but wants to get better. Meanwhile, the pace spearhead also revealed the importance of sharing the Mumbai Indians’ dressing room with Lasith Malinga.
“I started playing cricket with the tennis ball and the most useful delivery then to pick up wickets was the yorkers, so I stuck to that. When I came to IPL and played in the same team with Malinga, he showed me the importance of bowling accurate yorkers. I think I am decent with the delivery but I want to get better,” a modest Bumrah told Network18’s Group Sports Editor Gaurav Kalra in a brief chat.
Bumrah, who has a unique bowling action which is now being emulated all around the globe by people in all age groups, said, “As a kid, I used to watch a lot of cricket on TV and tried to emulate bowling actions of all the top bowlers in the world. So everyday when I went out to play it was a new bowling action. There is no better feeling when kids are emulating your bowling action because I used to do that when I was growing up.”