Former India opener Wasim Jaffer has lauded Bhuvneshwar Kumar after pacer’s splendid performance in the first T20I vs England at Southampton on Thursday.
While Hardik Pandya hogged the limelight with his all-round show of scoring a half century and taking four wickets to rip apart England’s top order, Bhuvneshwar took the prized wicket of newly-appointed captain Jos Buttler, who was dismissed first ball for a duck.
“In international cricket, a bowler who swings the ball will have most of the batters struggling, especially with the ball you don’t see many bowlers swinging it but Bhuvi is a great exponent of it,” Jaffer was quoted as saying by royalchallengers.com.
“He’s (Bhuvi) been getting it right since he has come back to the side and it was great to see him producing a good performance against a quality batting line-up. I don’t see any doubt in my mind that he’s going to be in the World Cup squad. He’s an absolute certainty,” added Jaffer.
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Buttler was welcomed with a searing in-swinger, which landed on off and jagged back in sharply. The skipper tried a late flick but the ball beat his defences to get past the pads and shatter the leg stump.
India and England are set to play the second T20I on Saturday at Edgbaston.
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