Sky Sports Cricket’s Nasser Hussain praised Bumrah – who recorded the best ODI figures for India against England – as the world’s best all-format bowler and urged England to look to Rohit’s side with a hammer in the south. Don’t panic after your T20I series loss.
“It was a one-sided game from the first ball to the last ball.
“India were very good with individual performances from Bumrah, Rohit and Dhawan. India were brilliant and England were not in the race.
“Bumrah has to be the best all-format bowler in world cricket. Who will be the challengers? Maybe Trent Boult, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Jofra Archer are fit. But right now, he is the best.
“The performance in this game was superb, top-class. Some of the balls were just fine.
“He has unusual action and run-up so the ball comes to you like a thunderbolt. He swings it both ways too – but he doesn’t just swing it, he’s quick too.
England captain Jos Buttler said: “You certainly don’t want days like this to come. They have come very few and far between so it’s hard to take.
“It’s definitely important not to panic, not look too much into it and find too many flaws. India bowled brilliantly and we didn’t manage to deal with it the way we wanted.
“But, if I look back over the last five or six years, batting has been our biggest strength in this form of the game. You see the names of the people out there, they are some of the best players that we have.
“We’ll try and learn from it as much as we can but we’ll stick to what we know. There’s huge trust in that dressing room that there are brilliant players in there.
“We need to be positive, get back out there and put things right when we play on Thursday [in the second ODI at Lord’s].”