Unreal hate campaign/PR against Bumrah: does India deserve mavericks?

[StraightDrive26]

Over the years the IQ and knowledge of cricket viewing public has gone down dramatically. People who don't understand the sport will indulge in such stupid comparisons. The journalists and former players have also become so poor that they have started clickbait articles/videos to attract these trolls. The Bollywood fans who only watch IPL and have no in depth knowledge of the game will only engage on star comparisons. I am sure Bumrah does not care about this and I am sure GG or Agarkar aren't going to go after Bumrah listening to some stupid people online.

 

Bumrah is not only India's best pacer ever, he is line to become one of the best pacers of all time and this is all we can do for him? I agree Siraj and others need credit and praise but not at the expense of one of the certified ATG's of the game. I just hope that this nonsense stops but again no such luck as India will play Asia without Bumrah and people will start this nonsense if we win the tournament without him. 

Edited August 7, 2025 by StraightDrive26

[StraightDrive26]

1 hour ago, Ultimate_Game said:

 

Pant, Jaiswal and Bumrah have been the biggest victims of lack of PR and other players' PR agenda. No matter what they do, they're the first to be criticized despite being the standout players in the team. Poor Jaiswal can't even get into shorter format teams despite being the best opener going around!

Virat and Rohit fans have been the worst on social media. Nice guys who just perform for the team and keep away from media don't get the same amount of PR or support. When Virat was struggling to score for 6 years and caused one of the most fragile middle order India have had since early 90's, these same fans were going out of their way to defend him. Same with Rohit when he was struggling in the last year or so of his Test career. Bumrah actually has been performing well, so not sure why the hate? Siraj deservers all the appreciation but again it is not required to pull down another player of the team to praise the other. I am not sure when this culture will change in India. I don't think we deserve players like Bumrah & Pant. 

[Sandz]

6 hours ago, Sgattick10 said:

Yeah saw lot of negative tweets from Kohli fans on X not sure what the gripe is between bumrah and kohli fans.. They abuse Bumrah at any given opportunity. Pathetic retards 

You will find some of those here in ICF too. 

[MechEng]

11 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

They don't even care about India win. lol More about jacob bethell and RCBIan crying is their problem

 

 

 

Looks like Stokes is about to give a chummi to him

[rollingstoned]

12 hours ago, Gollum said:

If you go through X, YT, there is a targetted smear campaign against Bumrah after the Oval win. In the name of praising Siraj/PK/Gill, the team, many are shitting on Bumrah in the vilest manner. Multiple YT channels running videos about Boom being jealous of Siraj (despite their mutual admiration), him underperforming deliberately, thinking he is bigger than the game etc. Even legends like Sunny G indirectly attacked him. Now reports of GG, Agarkar cracking the whip on him.....for what exactly, and what is their standing? Kaif released a clickbait video talking about Bumrah retiring from tests, many such ex-players, you might be seeing all that BS on your feed. 

 

I have seen MS fans go after Pant, Ro fans abuse Hardik....but the way Kohlitards are abusing Bumrah makes no sense....he has never competed with Kohli, in fact much of Kohli's test legacy owes thanks to guys like Boom and Shami.....even the T20 WC final knock of his was saved by Bumrah. Had we lost to Saffers, that would have received lot of abuse/mocking like KL's Nov 19 knock. The way Kohli spoke about Bumrah in the T20 WC win celebration, can't his fans pay heed to that? It is clear that Kohli takes pride in fast-tracking Bumrah in tests and backing all his quicks. 

 

Not good for his mental wellbeing. No fault of his here, bowled like a champ in a couple of innings at least, not bowlers' fault that we couldn't chase down 190 in Lord's...Headingley was a patta and even there batting collapsed twice. He has always put his body on the line for his country, we don't know to what extent it was damaged in BGT. He might be playing with lot of pain or under strict advice of doctors. 

 

When our people target Bumrah, Pant, Jaiswal even when they are performing well, I fully endorse @New guy's views that Indian cricket fans are phattus who don't like flair, aggression, unorthodox cricket etc. No wonder historically we have been minnows, seen as pushovers. 

 

And imagine praising Siraj and using that as an opportunity to denigrate Bumrah just because he missed that match. It is a disservice to both. Instead of being happy about a special win like normal human beings, they spread their hatred against one of the greatest matchwinners this country has produced.

Why does Indian fandom esp online see everything as zero sum, I can never understand. I see eg.s of this on icf too. 

[nevada]

It started as a meme about India winning when Bumrah is missing and has now blown up into a full scale anti campaign. Correlation != Causation! 

[Suhaan]

5 minutes ago, nevada said:

It started as a meme about India winning when Bumrah is missing and has now blown up into a full scale anti campaign. Correlation != Causation! 

Then India always wins ICC events without Siraj,why don't they run a counter campaign 

[Ultimate_Game]

12 hours ago, Sgattick10 said:

Yeah saw lot of negative tweets from Kohli fans on X not sure what the gripe is between bumrah and kohli fans.. They abuse Bumrah at any given opportunity. Pathetic retards 

 

6 hours ago, Sandz said:

You will find some of those here in ICF too. 

 

Gripe is that Bumrah made Kohli look like a has been. Bumrah was the one who was pulling the team and dead-weights like Kohli. We have likes of @putrevus on this very forum who take every opportunity to take shots at Bumrah and run him down while remaining mum on Kohli's failures over the last 6 years and costing us multiple series.

 

Irony is idiots like him claim Bumrah is a choker. Hilarious that they call others chokers while being a Kohli fan 

[StraightDrive26]

11 hours ago, putrevus said:

Why is he above criticism???

He is not but again, Indians don't know how to criticise someone constructively. Criticising someone in India means lots of trolling and abuse and calling someone names. Don't think any player deserves that and definitely not someone as good as Jasprit Bumrah. Express your issues with someone only in terms of their cricketing abilites. Can you tell me these criticisms are that? It is not and that is the problem. Even a great like Gavaskar making cringy statements like "Do Jawans complain about cold" etc, it's an insult to the jawans as well. When cricket goes out of the window and it gets personal, it is no longer criticism and goes into the zone of abuse. That's what which needs to stop and that too for someone who had given us great joy with his bowling. If Gavaskar talks about fitness, bowling biomechanics or Bumrah's actual performance in a game that is fine but talking like people who have no knowledge of the game is frustrating. The so called fans, well can't expect much from them anyways, their life revolves around bigging up someone to bring someone down. They don't care about someone's greatness or performances. Siraj is the scapegoat of the month, a month later he will be bashed if he goes for runs in a different formats. Sports doesn't work that way, players have good days and bad days, great ones have lesser bad ones, that's the only difference. 

[devisreeprasadmahesh]

No wonder India don't produce fast bowlers. No respect whatsoever. However great you may be. Just second grade citizens. India will not ever produce good fast bowlers going by this attitudeHowever great you may be. 

[AuxiliA]

I kinda like Kohli, but his online fanbase is the worst gutter trash you can find in the cricket World. Uncouth, abusive and even anti-national at times. 

 

Not surprising as much of his followers come from the Brothelwood gutter fanbases. These idiots have little to no idea about cricket. 

 

They are the reason why I stopped following Cricket on twitter. 

 

[New guy]

While we always had stupid people targeting our legends, and using similar points (for eg some of our Indian fans and people like manjrekar used similar points for Sachin), those criticism seemed organic and natural even if they were stupid

 

This however seems like some planned campaign against Bumrah because such hate based on a single series, makes no sense, is he threatening Gills captaincy or Gambhirs power? Did he refuse to play Asia cup in private which the board didn't like? 

 

There is something brewing behind the scene and Bumrah might be sacrificed for some politics.

 

@Gollum

Edited August 8, 2025 by New guy

[New guy]

2 hours ago, AuxiliA said:

I kinda like Kohli, but his online fanbase is the worst gutter trash you can find in the cricket World. Uncouth, abusive and even anti-national at times. 

 

Not surprising as much of his followers come from the Brothelwood gutter fanbases. These idiots have little to no idea about cricket. 

 

They are the reason why I stopped following Cricket on twitter. 

 

Thing is, if Rohit and Kohli just make a statement and call such behaviour out, this will stop immediately. Yet they keep quiet and encourage this 

Edited August 8, 2025 by New guy

[Serpico]

in Indian cricket, there is implicit understanding that any new player must constantly praise the existing superstar at any given opportunity and if they don't do it, its immediately dubbed as arrogance and ill manners. In fact, even opposition players are expected to constantly praise Kohli/MS/Rohit in press conferences and pander to their fandoms. So, whenever someone like Cummins doesn't follow the usual script and gives a witty answer, they will receive hate for their audacity to refuse to pump up Kohli.

 

When a cricket journo asks an indian cricketer who they think the fittest player in the team is, they must immediately say Virat bhayya like good little boys, because thats Virat's brand, he is the fitness monster etc. Similarly, if they ask who is capitan cool they must understand the cue and say Mahi bhaii. If Bumrah tries to be witty/original and say actually I think I am the fittest, he will be included the hitlist. Anytime he gets injured, the bots will start making memes about his arrogance, how injury is his karma etc. When interviewer asks about wicket celebrations, the bowler must realize that this is an opportunity to praise Virat bhayya for his aggression and passion and how he is fortunate to stand in his grace etc. Instead Bumrah had the audacity to say that he prefers to remain cool after taking a wicket, so that's another offense. And to top it all, Bumrah never played for RCB, so they cannot credit Kohli for 'discovering' the talent like they can do with Siraj. So for all these offenses, anytime Bumrah is down, he will be mercilessly hated until he yields to his majesty the King

[neel roy]

All these retards are on high. They forgot how many overs Bumrah bowled in Australia on much harder decks. If you add that with England Series its around 300 overs. 

[Tillu]

1 hour ago, New guy said:

While we always had stupid people targeting our legends, and using similar points (for eg some of our Indian fans and people like manjrekar used similar points for Sachin), those criticism seemed organic and natural even if they were stupid

 

This however seems like some planned campaign against Bumrah because such hate based on a single series, makes no sense, is he threatening Gills captaincy or Gambhirs power? Did he refuse to play Asia cup in private which the board didn't like? 

 

There is something brewing behind the scene and Bumrah might be sacrificed for some politics.

 

@Gollum

 

If it is genuine this fake outrage would have died down in a day or two. This is a hit job by the BCCI to put him in line. A paid campaign.

[Manucrick]

16 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

They don't even care about India win. lol More about jacob bethell and RCBIan crying is their problem

 

 

keep crying you rcb as* boy Bethell

[Manucrick]

Some group of people are going after boom intentionally including gavaskar

[New guy]

46 minutes ago, neel roy said:

All these retards are on high. They forgot how many overs Bumrah bowled in Australia on much harder decks. If you add that with England Series its around 300 overs. 

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Ficn2yniylihf1.png

 

Bumrah has bowled more overs than Siraj since 2020, despite playing 4-5 less matches (9 innings less)

[putrevus]

6 hours ago, StraightDrive26 said:

He is not but again, Indians don't know how to criticise someone constructively. Criticising someone in India means lots of trolling and abuse and calling someone names. Don't think any player deserves that and definitely not someone as good as Jasprit Bumrah. Express your issues with someone only in terms of their cricketing abilites. Can you tell me these criticisms are that? It is not and that is the problem. Even a great like Gavaskar making cringy statements like "Do Jawans complain about cold" etc, it's an insult to the jawans as well. When cricket goes out of the window and it gets personal, it is no longer criticism and goes into the zone of abuse. That's what which needs to stop and that too for someone who had given us great joy with his bowling. If Gavaskar talks about fitness, bowling biomechanics or Bumrah's actual performance in a game that is fine but talking like people who have no knowledge of the game is frustrating. The so called fans, well can't expect much from them anyways, their life revolves around bigging up someone to bring someone down. They don't care about someone's greatness or performances. Siraj is the scapegoat of the month, a month later he will be bashed if he goes for runs in a different formats. Sports doesn't work that way, players have good days and bad days, great ones have lesser bad ones, that's the only difference. 

That is the problem, some people think they only know how to criticize someone constructively.

 

Others who are criticizing are doing it intentionally with some ulterior motive and for them somehow Bumrah is beyond every criticism .

 

Gavaskar was wrong to use jawan comparision.Fact remains Bumrah has come up small again and again in important matches. I don't see anything wrong in pointing it out.

Edited August 8, 2025 by putrevus