While doing commentary for the Vijay Hazare Trophy final (50-over tournament) between Gujarat and Delhi, watched Jasprit Bumrah bowl. I always thought of him as a run-of-the-mill medium pacer, who bowled with an awkward action. However, in the final, I was surprised by his pace and his ability to trouble the batsmen with his bouncers/yorkers. Loved the double bluff against Ishant Sharma. He had a FSL in place for Ishant and then bowled a crackerjack yorker to send the off-stump cartwheeling. Parthiv Patel seems to get the best out of him.
Parthiv himself played with a lot of maturity to compile his first List A ton. RP Singh swung the new ball prodigiously to cause early damage. Gautam Gambhir again poked at deliveries outside off on numerous occasions and fell to RP. Unmukt Chand seemed to be all over the place when he attempted to drive through the off-side. Shikhar Dhawan looked clueless. Wonderful bowling by the trio of Rush Kalaria, RP and Bumrah. They consistently bowled with an upright seam. In the end, it was good to see Gujarat upsetting the apple-cart and Parthiv lifting the trophy