Who Is the World No 1 Bowler in Cricket?

                                                   

Who Is the World No 1 Bowler in Cricket?

The world No 1 bowler in cricket right now isn't just one of the best bowlers in the world; he might also be one of the best ever. Who's the World's No 1 Bowler? Let's find out!

Jasprit Bumrah

The world's No.1 bowler in cricket is Jasprit Bumrah of India. He debuted for the national team in a T20I against Australia on October 25, 2014, and finished with figures of 4-0-19-2. His first international wicket was that of David Warner, who was caught by Shikhar Dhawan at deep square leg off the third ball he bowled. In the match against Bangladesh on November 11, 2014, Jasprit Bumrah took six wickets and became the fastest Indian to reach 50 ODI wickets while still playing his 12th ODI. With this feat, he also became the youngest Indian bowler to take over 50 wickets in ODIs. On December 20, 2018, the International Cricket Council ranked him the best bowler in the world. He has played 17 Tests, 136 Day Internationals (ODIs), and 24 Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) as of January 2019. He took the most wickets during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, where he was awarded the Purple Cap with 21 scalps. He also won the Man of the Tournament award in the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which helped India lift their second trophy after 1983. He has been the leading wicket-taker in the IPL three times - in 2013, 2016, and 2018. He did not play any part in the Test series against Sri Lanka due to injury but came back strongly in the limited overs format of the game with 13 wickets from 5 matches.

Kagiso Rabada

He had an amazing year in 2018, with a record-breaking 56 wickets from 10 tests. His best bowling figures were 6/38 against New Zealand at Wellington on December 9, 2018. Rabada was awarded the ICC Test Player of the Year award for his outstanding performance in 2018.

He has been nicknamed KG, which stands for Kagiso Goba (his name), and The Black Hurricane. He started playing international cricket for South Africa when he was just 19 years old. He is one of the players helping the Proteas rise again as one of the top cricketing nations in the world. In the ICC T20I rankings, Kagiso Rabada ranked 3rd behind Rashid Khan and Jasprit Bumrah. But the new rankings released after the conclusion of the 2018 edition of the Indian Premier League show that Rabada has moved up two spots and now ranks as the number one bowler in all three formats of the game: Tests, ODIs, and Twenty20 Internationals. He was also named the player of the tournament and awarded the purple cap as well! The ICC quoted, He tops the chart for wickets in Test matches this calendar year with 56 at an average of 15.76 runs apiece.

Rabada is 22 years old and hails from South Africa. He began playing cricket when he was only seven years old - first playing soccer before discovering a talent for throwing balls.

The nickname 'KG' came about because his initials are KR, but his mom said it would be easier if he called himself by his first name instead, so it would be like other people's names like ABD or DAD.

Trent Boult

The world's number one cricket bowler is Trent Boult. Born on May 20, 1989, this New Zealand player has a pretty impressive resume. He had his first international game when he was only 18 years old and has been playing since then. He has played over 100 One Day Internationals and 33 Test matches. Boult was the leading wicket-taker at the 2015 World Cup and also won the player of the tournament award. As of June 2017, he holds the record for most wickets by a left-arm fast bowler in ODIs with 309 since his debut in 2010. The players that follow him are Mitchell Starc and Ryan Harris, with 299 and 282, respectively. In addition to being the number one bowler in the world, Boult is also the highest-paid cricketer from the Southern Hemisphere (Australia, South Africa). His current salary is USD 1.8 million annually, with an additional NZD 0.5 million on offer if he reaches certain milestones.

The season before last (2016) saw him take 63 wickets in 17 tests, placing him 3rd on the List of all-time best bowling figures behind Sir Richard Hadlee, who took 931 wickets, and Dennis Lillee, who took 619 wickets, respectively.

It seems Trent Boult will dominate the cricket field for many years!

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Pat Cummins

The world No 1 bowler in cricket is Pat Cummins. Pat Cummins is an Australian cricketer born on January 4, 1990. He made his Test debut against South Africa at the WACA Ground on November 2,9, 2011, after several injuries to other players. His One Day International debut was also against South Africa on December 10, 2011, at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG). In the second innings of this match, he took three wickets for no runs off six overs to help Australia win by four wickets. Cummins scored his maiden ODI half-century in the first match of the five-match series against India at Chennai's M.A Chidambaram Stadium on February 15, 2013. With these innings, he became the youngest Australian to score an ODI fifty since Ricky Ponting in 1993. Cummins plays for the New South Wales Blues in the Sheffield Shield competition, the Sydney Sixers and Sydney Thunder franchise teams in the Big Bash League and IPL, respectively, and represents Australia internationally. He was selected for the Australia A team's winter tour of England, where he played in two first-class matches and one List A match.

In the third Test Match of the 2016/2017 Border Gavaskar Trophy against India, Cummins suffered another injury scare when he got hit on the shoulder during his seventh over bowling spell.

The injury recurred later that month when playing in the third One Day International (ODI) against Pakistan in Canberra on January 27, 2017. He had earlier missed games due to a back problem which sidelined him from mid-October until early November 2016. The left-arm pacer has been scrutinized recently because of his high number of injuries during international cricket.

The latest fracture to his bowling hand ruled him out for the remainder of the 2016-17 summer season and potentially the entire 2017 Ashes campaign depending on the result of scans scheduled for Wednesday, March 2, 2017.

Cummins' condition could not be worse at present, given that even before these latest fractures, it was revealed that he required surgery to remove bone spurs from his troublesome ankle, which will rule him out for up to 8 weeks.

Mitchell Starc

Born on October 24, 1988, Mitchell Starc is one of the youngest members of Australia's elite cricket squad. He debuted for New South Wales at 17 years old before being selected for the Australian Twenty20 International squad less than a year later. In the inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League, he became the most expensive player to be sold when he was purchased by the Kolkata Knight Riders for US$2 million.

He's known as a strike bowler, meaning he has an impressive ability to take wickets and get batsmen out with balls that are not hit too hard (though they're still pretty fast). Former Australian captain Ian Chappell describes his bowling style as naggingly consistent. As well as this, it means that if you're batting against him and you can't score runs quickly enough, he'll keep getting you out eventually until you're dismissed or the team finishes batting (meaning your team loses). In the 2013-14 Ashes series between England and Australia, he took 28 wickets across the five matches - the second-highest number taken in any series between the two countries. And the very next year, when playing against England again in their home conditions, he beat that record by taking 29 wickets over six games - though both times, his side lost!

This same trend continued during India's tour of Australia earlier this year. He took 18 wickets across three games while conceding 320 runs - but all three matches ended up being draws!

The world's No 1 bowler in cricket? Probably not yet,, but with performances like these, we can see him rising up there soon.

Who do you think is the world No 1 bowler in cricket? Leave your comments below!

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