Bursting into the scene with an unorthodox action, Jasprit Bumrah has grown into a bowler of a wide range of skills. The ability to swing the ball both ways, move it off the pitch, deceive with changes in pace and length, explode with pace and also just York the batter, Bumrah has it all.

In the Semi-Finals the skills were on display. In a game where 499 runs were scored Bumrah was left to be the game changer once more. He did so inBarbados 2024, with 30 needed off 30, bowling a back to the wall game changing spell to win the World Cup. 

This time, 69 off 30, the required rate just a run ahead of the teams run-rate, England had the game in the balance. Despite all their explosiveness in the chase though they chose to play out 12 of those balls knowing it was from the hands of Jasprit Bumrah. It was a night of theatre with the air of unpredictability. 253 runs scored and the Indian team was biting their nails until the 39^th over.

The 18^th over of the innings with 45 to get was the peak of theatre. For all its unpredictability, each character involved knew exactly what was coming when Bumrah took the ball. A man who has mastered every delivery a pace bowler can bowl, defending late in a T20 game on the flattest of wickets. Bumrah kept it simple.

He stuck to his strength, the ball that made him famous and poked away with the yorker. Full, fast and straight. He did it in Bengaluru 2016 to give Hardik Pandya runs to defend against Bangladesh in the Final over.  He did the same again to give Hardik Pandya more space on the stage.

A masterclass, six deliveries, full, fast and straight. The audience left marvelling yet again at how a bowler went at just 8 an over when 12 runs an over was the norm for the evening. England were left hiding. Jacob Bethell, for all the effort the put in chose to weight it out and gamble against the bowlers after Hardik Pandya and Shivam Dube. Bumrah though did his job perfectly and the momentum was killed. Pandya as has happened many times used the stage to finish things off.

It was one man in Jasprit Bumrah, though, who once again showed his class doing so in the most predictable manner of an unpredictable art. He weaved his magic earlier in the game as well with a loopy slower deliver,y foxing Harry Brook and some help from a blinder by Axar Patel in the field. The variation is always on display. Over number 18, though, was just going one way.  Amid all the unpredictable and fast-moving facets of the game, it was one bowler who stuck to his predictable and mastered the defense of a target.