England v India: Jasprit Bumrah was a unique team-mate

I archetypal faced Jasprit Bumrah successful a nine lucifer erstwhile helium was inactive a teenager, agelong earlier helium became my India team-mate.

There were different bowlers playing successful the crippled who had played first-class cricket but helium was conscionable different.

These days, arsenic we person seen done the existent Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, helium is simply a implicit bowler, but backmost past the main happening astir him was his pace. He was rapid.

Throughout the pursuing years helium began to marque his sanction successful the Indian Premier League but earlier helium played his archetypal Test successful Cape Town successful South Africa successful 2018, determination were inactive a batch of question marks astir him successful India.

His enactment was unique, radical questioned whether helium would beryllium capable to plaything the reddish shot oregon if helium had the consistency and power for the longer format.

He whitethorn person lone taken 4 wickets successful that archetypal Test but helium answered each of those questions.

I retrieve lasting astatine archetypal gaffe with Virat Kohli adjacent to maine astatine 2nd and Shikhar Dhawan astatine third. We were each saying however it conscionable felt dissimilar immoderate of the different bowlers.

We had Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Hardik Pandya playing successful that crippled but again helium felt different. Shami was speedy but Bumrah was quicker.

I stood astatine archetypal gaffe a batch to Bumrah successful my career. It was wholly unique.

Much is made astir the space created by his enactment and his presumption wide connected the crease being hard for batters but it is tricky for gaffe fielders too.

The angles helium creates means the wicketkeeper has to basal astir down the stumps against right-handers, alternatively than connected a 4th stump line. That meant I had to determination further implicit to adjacent the gap.

It ever felt similar you are seeing him jog successful from consecutive on. When you adhd successful his skiddy trajectory everything conscionable felt quicker.

Bumrah would ne'er outcry astatine a gaffe fielder for dropping a drawback – helium is excessively bully a feline for that – but we did gag with him.

Off the tract Jasprit is an introvert. He spends a batch of clip successful his room. It is not successful a atrocious way. He conscionable enjoys his ain company.

There was a radical of america – myself, Shubman Gill, Rishabh Pant and erstwhile wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha – who would ever beryllium playing Fifa connected the PlayStation portion connected circuit and whenever we invited Jasprit it was hard enactment getting him there.

In the extremity we had to gag that we wouldn't instrumentality immoderate catches disconnected his bowling if helium didn't come.

Bumrah needed the assistance of a bully spouse erstwhile playing Fifa - arsenic a gamer he's not up to overmuch - but it was connected his archetypal circuit of England successful 2018 erstwhile helium went up different level arsenic a bowler.

By the clip we went to Australia the pursuing wintertime we realised helium was our wildcard that would play for India a precise agelong time. He was instrumental arsenic we won successful Australia for the archetypal time.

You whitethorn retrieve connected that circuit of England a hooping inswinger helium bowled to Keaton Jennings who was retired lbw without playing a shot. England's batters conscionable could not work his plaything and, utilizing the Dukes shot for the archetypal time, erstwhile helium got it to move, it moved a agelong way.

If I had bowled a shot similar that 1 to Jennings I would person been moving astir celebrating and talking astir it for ages. Jasprit stayed chill and didn't ever brag.

He conscionable gets connected with the adjacent delivery.

In the dressing country helium is ever watching the game. Most accelerated bowlers travel disconnected the tract and unbend with their feet up. He does unbend but helium ever has an oculus connected the field.

When I utilized to beryllium adjacent to him helium would ever beryllium giving an input connected what our batters oregon the absorption could beryllium doing differently, which is wherefore helium was viewed arsenic a campaigner to beryllium skipper earlier India appointed Shubman Gill.

Most radical speech astir Bumrah's skills with the ball, his space oregon his enactment but his biggest spot is often overlooked.

He has a superb cricket encephalon which comes from his clip successful the IPL. There helium worked with radical similar erstwhile Sri Lanka bowler Lasith Malinga and has gained the skills to outsmart a batter.

His archetypal instinct is ever to vessel his champion shot but if a batter gets successful helium knows each of their strengths and weaknesses. He has taken the skills from white-ball cricket to go the implicit Test bowler.

One of my favourite moments connected that England circuit successful 2018 came successful Southampton erstwhile Jasprit helped maine get done to a 100 successful the archetypal innings.

I was connected 96 erstwhile helium came retired astatine fig 11 and I person to admit I did not deliberation I would get determination but helium walked successful and said "I volition defend. I don't cognize if I volition past but I volition bash my best".

I ended up finishing connected 132 not retired arsenic we enactment connected 46 for the past wicket.

That time sums him up due to the fact that whether batting oregon bowling helium is simply a precise competitory cricketer.

When it comes to his bowling, nary substance the concern of the game, helium ever wants and believes helium tin get a wicket.

Ultimately, helium is the cleanable squad man.

Cheteshwar Pujara was speaking to BBC Sport's Matthew Henry