The 2024 ICC Test Cricketer of the Year Award goes to Jasprit Bumrah.

In 2024, Jasprit Bumrah played 13 Test matches for India, taking 71 wickets, including 30 against Australia in the opening four games.

Jasprit Bumrah, a prominent fast bowler from India, was named the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year 2024 on Monday, January 27. Last year, he dismissed 71 batters in 13 Test matches. In the home series against England and the away series against Australia, Bumrah was playing at the top of his game for India.

In the second innings of the Cape Town Test match against South Africa on January 4, 2024, Bumrah took six wickets to start the year. He went on to take 19 wickets in four Test matches against England. Bumrah claimed nine wickets (6+3) in the second Test at Vizag after dismissing six batters (2+4) in the series opener at Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.In addition to winning Player of the Match, his outstanding performance with the ball in Visakhapatnam elevated him to the top of the Test bowling rankings. Bumrah took three wickets in the opening two games of the New Zealand series and concluded the two-match series against Bangladesh in September-October with eleven wickets.

Bumrah took eight wickets (5+3) while leading India in the opening Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy without Rohit Sharma. India took a 1-0 lead in the series under his leadership after crushing the Australians by 295 runs in four days. Bumrah took nine wickets in the third (6+3) and fourth (4+5) Tests at The Gabba and Melbourne Cricket Ground, respectively, and dismissed four Australian batsmen in the Day-Night Test held at Adelaide Oval from December 6–8.

Bumrah’s performance in 2024 (Tests)

RUNS	WICKETS (1st Innings)	WICKETS (2nd Innings)	OPPOSITION	VENUE	DATE
0/DNB	2	6	South Africa	Cape Town	January 3-4
0/6*	2	4	England	Hyderabad	January 25-28
6/0	6	3	England	Visakhapatnam	February 2-5
26/DNB	1	1	England	Rajkot	February 15-18
20	0	2	England	Dharamsala	March 7-9
7/DNB	4	1	Bangladesh	Chennai	September 19-22
1*/DNB	3	3	Bangladesh	Kanpur	September 27-October 1
1/0	1	2	New Zealand	Bengaluru	October 16-20
0/10*	0	0	New Zealand	Pune	October 24-26
8/DNB	5	3	Australia	Perth	November 22-25
0/2*	4	0	Australia	Adelaide	December 6-8
10*/DNB	6	3	Australia	Brisbane	December 14-18
0/0	4	5	Australia	Melbourne	December 26-30

In addition to his bowling, Bumrah impressed with his batting as well in the first innings of the Brisbane Test and scored 10 runs as No. 10 batter to help India successfully avoid the follow-on.