Last Updated:March 17, 2025, 16:20 IST
Kohli has reserved big praise for Bumrah and said the 31-year-old pacer is the toughest bowler he’s ever faced.
Virat Kohli names best bowler he’s ever faced. (Picture Credit: AFP)
Batting superstar Virat Kohli has reserved big praise for star Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah and said that the 31-year-old pacer from Ahmedabad, who plays for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL), is the toughest bowler he’s ever faced. According to Kohli, Bumrah is the best bowler in the world across formats, and he has also gotten him out a few times in the IPL.
“No doubt about the fact that Jasprit (Bumrah) is the best bowler in the world across all the formats. He’s gotten me out a few times in the IPL. I’ve had success against him in the IPL, so whenever I face him, it’s like, ‘Okay, it’s going to be fun,’ because we don’t get to do that in the nets,” Kohli said in a video shared by RCB’s official social media handles.
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“I mean, even he and I in the nets, it’s like playing a match. The intensity is like we play a match in the IPL, where every ball is like, I wanted to hit him for runs, and he wants to get me out, and I try not to get out of him, so you can sense it like he’s at match intensity, I’m at match intensity. So today he’s probably the marker that I keep when I play against him in the nets regularly; that I would say is the most enjoyable and the toughest challenge,” he added.
Bumrah made his IPL debut for Mumbai Indians on April 4, 2013, against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at M Chinnaswamy Stadium and picked up three wickets for 32 runs in four overs.
He was smacked for boundaries by Kohli on the first, second and fourth balls of the first over, but on the fifth ball, Bumrah, who was 19 then, trapped Kohli in front of the wickets and picked up his first wicket.
Overall, Bumrah has 165 wickets to his name in 133 IPL matches played so far. He is one of the three players to win five IPL titles with the Mumbai Indians.
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