Jasprit Bumrah celebrates the wicket of Travis Head in Perth on November 25, 2024. (Photo by Colin Murty/AFP via Getty Images)

NEW DELHI: Travis Head, an Australian batsman, believes that Jasprit Bumrah will be remembered as “one of the greatest fast bowlers to play the game” and that he will be able to proudly share with his grandchildren the difficult task of taking on the India pace spearhead.
Bumrah’s outstanding performance in the first Test match in Perth, which India won by 295 runs, solidified his place as the world’s finest bowler.
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“Jasprit will go down as probably one of the greatest fast bowlers to play the game. I think we’re finding that at the moment — how challenging he can be, and it’s nice to play against that,” Head told reporters on Monday.
“It’s gonna be nice to go back and look at your career and go tell the grandkids that you faced him. So not a bad series of playing with him. Hopefully I’ll face a few more times, but he is as being challenging,” he added.
With a match-haul of 8/72, which included several crucial wickets, Bumrah, who was captaining India, led from the front and displayed his outstanding form. His outstanding achievement this year was evidence of his extraordinary consistency.
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He was voted Player-of-the-Series at the T20 World Cup earlier this year, as he was instrumental in India’s title victory.
The top order, which included Steve Smith, Usman Khawaja, and Marnus Labuschagne, struggled, and Head was the only Australian batter to reach fifty. However, the powerful middle-order batsman is positive that his teammates won’t be coming to him for advice.
“They are not coming to me for batting tips, that’s for sure. Everyone goes about it in different ways. We’ll have a chat over the next three or four days.
“(Bumrah) is so unique, and that’s with any of the bowlers, really. Every (batter) picks up different cues and goes about it in a different way.”
Following a brief break, the Australian team reassembled on Monday.
On Friday, the two teams will begin a pink ball Test match in Adelaide at the same venue where India were dismissed for 36 on their 2020 visit.
Recalling that match, Head said, “I remember that it was a quick Test, so it was good. We got to enjoy all of the bits of Adelaide afterwards.
“It’ll be nice to do that again. Don’t know if we can revisit. It wouldn’t take very long to watch it. I don’t think that will happen this week.”

Australia last played a pink ball Test in January, while India played a day-night match against the Prime Minister’s XI over the weekend.
“It’s been a long time since we played one (pink ball), India got another look at it last night. Everyone’s well experienced enough, especially that team as well, that in your international level.
“I think you can accustomed to things pretty quickly. I don’t think it’ll take them long to be prepared for it, and same as us.”
There is no “divide” between Australia’s bowling squad and their faltering batting, Head claimed. After Josh Hazlewood’s remark during the first Test, there were suggestions of a potential rift within the team.
“We hold high expectations for both sides (batting and bowling) and it’s a very individualised sport,” Head said.
“So batters, we want to hold our own – we know how good our bowlers have been for us in the past and they’ve got us out of trouble a lot. As a batting group, we know that if we get enough runs on the board, we put ourselves in a great position.
“As a batter myself, I try to take a whole lot of pride in what I do, and knowing that if I can set it up for the big boys, that they can knock it down for us, so definitely no divide,” Head said.
Head believed that the Australians would recover from their terrifying performance in Perth.
“This team has dealt with adversity well. The small amount that we have had in the last three or four years, we have played well.
“We’ve had some challenging times and a couple of challenging Tests last year. We didn’t have a very good week. That’s fine. But we have got four more opportunities to do it, we will crack on as we do, as we have done for the last few years.
“Over the last couple of years, there’s a lot of teams that lost the first Test or gone down in the series and brought it back and played really well.”