Jamieson was instrumental with the ball especially during India's first innings, in restricting Virat Kohli's men to a low score.
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One of the best performers for New Zealand in their outstanding triumph in the final of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) was all-rounder Kyle Jamieson. He was instrumental with the ball, especially during India’s first innings, in restricting Virat Kohli’s men to a low score. Jamieson picked five wickets in the first and two in the second innings. Ever since the Kiwis lifted the mace, Jamieson has been garnering some well-deserved praise for making the most of the conditions at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton, England. The movement off his deliveries was incredible and he bowled them to precision. The latest individual to share his thoughts regarding the Kiwi all-rounder is none other than India’s greatest ever batter, Sachin Tendulkar.
Tendulkar is of the belief that Jamieson has the potential to become one of the leading all-rounders in the sport.
“Kyle Jamieson is a fantastic all-rounder. He is going to go on and become one of the leading all-rounders in world cricket,” the former cricketer said on his YouTube channel.
“When I had seen him last year in NZ, he impressed me,” he added.
Tendulkar then went on to explain why he felt that the conditions in England made the tall pacer even more lethal. It is also a testament to how Jamieson made good use of the conditions, something the Indian bowlers failed to do during the match.
“If you see his bowling, he is very tall and more than swinging, he likes to bowl seaming deliveries. He is a different bowler compared to Tim Southee, Trent Boult, and Neil Wagner. Jamieson hits the deck hard and whatever he does, is off the seam. There were variations which he used where he angled his wrists and bowled big inswingers. There was reasonable variation in his bowling and what I liked was consistency,” the little master said.
Tendulkar also praised Jamieson for using his height to his advantage while he was batting. Jamieson had played a short cameo of 21 runs off 16 deliveries in the Kiwi first innings. The extra runs proved to be quite important for New Zealand. The all-rounder brilliantly supported his skipper Kane Williamson in the middle when the rest of the batting lineup seemed out of form.
“His partnership with Williamson was a critical one for New Zealand. He chose to attack from ball one and used his height beautifully. A tall batter, who can get on to the front foot and makes a big statement,” Tendulkar said.
“That kind of unsettles the bowler and they have to pull back their lengths because the batter is using his height. When the ball has to come chin high, then length has to be short and that gives batter chance to play horizontal bat shots and that’s what Jamieson exactly did. Anything off length, he used his height beautifully, stood tall, and played most of them,” he added.
New Zealand became the inaugural champions of the ICC World Test Championship as they recorded a dominating victory over India in the final match. The Kiwis won the game comfortably with eight wickets to spare as Kane Williamson became the first captain to lift the mace.
