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Border Gavaskar Trophy: India single-handedly kept in series by Jasprit Bumrah, says Ravi Shastri | Cricket News

Border Gavaskar Trophy: India single-handedly kept in series by Jasprit Bumrah, says Ravi Shastri | Cricket News

Ravi Shastri believes that Jasprit Bumrah has single-handedly managed to keep India alive in the Border Gavaskar Trophy and thinks that India’s big guns will finally start firing in Melbourne and Sydney and that Australia have a ‘problem on their hands’. Speaking to the ICC Review, Shastri said that the fight that India showed in Adelaide to avoid the follow on would be a big boost to the team as the series headed to Melbourne. Celebrations in the dressing room when Akash Deep cut the ball for four surprised many, but the psychological boost of avoiding a defeat at Adelaide would spur India, according to the former Indian head coach. “It’ll lift the Indian team. And for me, the series is on a level peg now and India might just be calling the shots. Massive. They would give anything for a 1-1 result. The first Test was in Perth, the second Test a day-nighter in Adelaide, and then the third Test was in Brisbane. Any overseas team will, you know, settle for a 1-1 score …