Jasprit Bumrah Wins ICC Cricketer Of The Year 2024 Award
31-year-old Jasprit Bumrah played 13 Tests and 8 T20I matches for India last year and accounted for the dismissal of 71 and 15 batters, respectively.
Star fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah joined legendary Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Rahul Dravid, and Ravichandran Ashwin in an elite list on Tuesday (January 28) by becoming the fifth Indian cricketer to win the ICC Cricketer of the Year award. Bumrah defeated Travis Head, Joe Root, and Harry Brook to win the ICC Cricketer of the Year 2024 award.
The 31-year-old cricketer from Ahmedabad was on fire for India in international cricket last year and played a total of 21 matches in which he dismissed 86 batters.
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In 13 Tests as an India player, five of which were played away from home, Bumrah picked up 71 wickets, and in eight T20Is, he dismissed 15 batters. For his superb show with the ball and playing a big role in India’s T20 World Cup 2024 title win, Bumrah won the Player of the Tournament award in the men’s shortest format megaevent last year, which was played from June 1 to 29 in the West Indies and USA.
Indians to win ICC Cricketer of the Year award
- Rahul Dravid – 2004
- Sachin Tendulkar – 2010
- Ravichandran Ashwin – 2016
- Virat Kohli – 2017, 2018
- Jasprit Bumrah – 2024
ICC Cricketer of the Year winners
- Rahul Dravid (India) – 2004
- Jacques Kallis (South Africa) & Andrew Flintoff (England) – 2005
- Ricky Ponting (Australia) – 2006
- Ricky Ponting (Australia) – 2007
- Shivnarine Chanderpaul (West Indies) – 2008
- Mitchell Johnson (Australia) – 2009
- Sachin Tendulkar (India) – 2010
- Jonathan Trott (England) – 2011
- Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) – 2012
- Michael Clarke (Australia) – 2013
- Mitchell Johnson (Australia) – 2014
- Steve Smith (Australia) – 2015
- Ravichandran Ashwin (India) – 2016
- Virat Kohli (India) – 2017
- Virat Kohli (India) – 2018
- Ben Stokes (England) – 2019
- Shaheen Shah Afridi (Pakistan) – 2021
- Babar Azam (Pakistan) – 2022
- Pat Cummins (Australia) – 2023
- Jasprit Bumrah (India) – 2024
Bumrah, who sits at No. 1 position in the ICC Test bowler’s ranking, on Monday, January 27, was named as the ICC Test cricketer of the year 2024 award. The Indian Test vice-captain finished as the leading wicket-taker last year and also led Team India to a 295-run win over Australia in the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy played at Optus Stadium in Perth.
Bumrah picked up five five-wicket hauls in Tests and also broke Ashwin’s record of being India’s highest wicket-taker in one edition of the World Test Championship (WTC).
Bumrah’s performance in 2024
Tests
| OPPOSITION | RUNS (1st/2nd Innings) | WICKETS (1st/2nd Innings) | VENUE | DATE |
| South Africa | 0/DNB | 2/6 | Cape Town | January 3-4 |
| England | 0/6* | 2/4 | Hyderabad | January 25-28 |
| England | 6/0 | 6/3 | Visakhapatnam | February 2-5 |
| England | 26/DNB | 1/1 | Rajkot | February 15-18 |
| England | 20/- | 0/2 | Dharamsala | March 7-9 |
| Bangladesh | 7/DNB | 4/1 | Chennai | September 19-22 |
| Bangladesh | 1*/DNB | 3/3 | Kanpur | September 27-October 1 |
| New Zealand | 1/0 | 1/2 | Bengaluru | October 16-20 |
| New Zealand | 0/10* | 0/0 | Pune | October 24-26 |
| Australia | 8/DNB | 5/3 | Perth | November 22-25 |
| Australia | 0/2* | 4/0 | Adelaide | December 6-8 |
| Australia | 10*/DNB | 6/3 | Brisbane | December 14-18 |
| Australia | 0/0 | 4/5 | Melbourne | December 26-30 |
T20Is
| OPPOSITION | RUNS | WICKETS | VENUE | DATE |
| Ireland | DNB | 2 | New York | June 5 |
| Pakistan | 0 | 3 | New York | June 9 |
| USA | DNB | 0 | New York | June 12 |
| Bangladesh | DNB | 3 | Bridgetown | June 20 |
| Afghanistan | DNB | 2 | North Sound | June 22 |
| Australia | DNB | 1 | Gros Islet | June 24 |
| England | DNB | 2 | Providence | June 27 |
| South Africa | DNB | 2 | Bridgetown | June 29 |
Bumrah’s closest competitor for the Cricketer of the Year award was Root, who played 17 Test matches for England in 2024 and scored 1556 runs. In addition to that, the former England Test captain also picked up 11 wickets.
On the other hand, Brook amassed a total of 1100 runs in 12 Test matches. He missed the five-match series against India at the start of the year due to personal reasons. Brook also played five ODIs and 10 T20Is and scored 312 and 163 runs, respectively.
Head, who scored a century in the ODI World Cup 2023 final against India to seal a historic win for Australia at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, scored 608, 252, and 539 runs in nine Tests, five ODIs, and 15 T20Is, respectively.
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