|| CF Correspondent ||

Indian speedster Jasprit Bumrah has recently revealed the chat he had with the then captain MS Dhoni on his international debut, against Australia in the Sydney ODI of 2016. Bumrah was added in the squad in the fifth and final ODI after India lost the first four matches of the series.

The pacer also said that Dhoni didn’t witness his bowling before the match and he finished with the figures of 10-0-40-2 as well where Australia put up a total of 330 for 7 and India chased down with Manish Pandey's brilliant century.

"Well, it was his decision, and everybody respects it," Bumrah said to Times of India about MS Dhoni's retirement from international cricket. "At a personal level, I made my debut under him and he gave me a lot of confidence. Not many people know that Mahi bhai had never seen me bowl, at any level. In my debut game, I was going to bowl in the death overs and I asked him 'can I bowl yorkers?' and he was like 'no, don't bowl yorkers'. He thought since it was a difficult delivery, I wouldn't be able to pull it off.”

He further added, "I told him 'in death overs, I don't know what else to do'. So, anyway, I went ahead and did my thing and then he came to me and was like ‘I didn't know this at all. You should've come earlier, we would've won the whole series’. Here was me, making a nervous debut and the captain telling me ‘you could've won us this series’. He gave me a lot freedom."

Meanwhile, both Jasprit Bumrah and MS Dhoni will be seen in the upcoming edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) which is scheduled to take place in the UAE from September 19 and the tournament will end on November 10.