Sources told Sportskeeda that Jasprit Bumrah has been asked to fill the form for the Arjuna Award and last year, BCCI did recommend his name along with three other cricketers namely Poonam Yadav, Mohd Shami and Ravindra Jadeja.
Notably, it was only Poonam and Jadeja who were awarded. Sources said that this year too, Jasprit Bumrah was asked to fill the form, but BCCI recommended only three names for the award – Ishant Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Deepti Sharma, while Rohit Sharma’s name was recommended for the Khel Ratna Award.
Neither the BCCI officials nor Jasprit Bumrah were available for comment. However, a certain section within BCCI isn’t amused by the apex body’s recommendations this year.
No recognition despite Jasprit Bumrah’s consistency
Jasprit Bumrah, since his Test debut against South Africa in 2018 is the main strike bowler of the Indian team in all formats of the game. Thus far, he has played 14 Test matches for India and has picked up 68 wickets at an average of 20.3. He also has five five-wicket hauls. In ODIs too, he has grabbed 104 scalps from 64 games while in the T20I format, he has bagged 59 wickets from 50 matches.
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