AHMEDABAD: With their consistent demolition job in the 2023 World Cup, India's all-conquering bowlers are now earning lavish praise from the opposition batters they've tormented too. On Friday, England's Test captain Ben Stokes, while talking to the reporters here at the Narendra Modi Stadium, termed paceman Mohammed Shami, who's taken 14 wickets in just three matches at an astonishing average of 6.71, including five for 18 against Sri Lanka at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday night, as the "bowler of the tournament."
Stokes' admiration for Shami is understandable, given the fact that the veteran left-hander, normally a destructive batsman, was at the receiving end of a superb 10-ball set up by the fast bowler, who eventually rattled his middle and leg stumps with one that skidded through after bowling nine superb dot balls to him, during England's 100-run defeat at the hands of India at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow on October 29.
