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India’s Jasprit Bumrah will be considered “one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time”, Australia’s Travis Head said on Monday ahead of the day-night Test in Adelaide this week.

Stand-in skipper Bumrah took eight wickets in the first Test and helped the visitors to a stunning 295-run win in Perth last week.

The 30-year-old will hand over the captaincy to regular captain Rohit Sharma for the second Test starting on Friday.

With Bumrah not burdened with leadership responsibilities, he could pose an even bigger threat under the pink ball lights.

“Jasprit will probably go down in history as one of the best fast bowlers in the game,” Head, a top-class batsman, told reporters.

“We’re realizing at the moment how challenging he can be and it’s nice to play against him.”

“It will be nice to look back on your career and tell the grandchildren you played against him, so it’s not a bad series to play with him.”

“But hopefully I only have to face him a few more times. He was a challenge.”

Head top-scored Australia with 89 in the hosts’ second innings in Perth and will be in familiar territory at his home ground at the Adelaide Oval.

But despite all that, the 30-year-old said: “It’s just another week – prepare and go in fresh and hopefully I can produce the same performances.”

“It’s going to be a challenge, but I feel like I’m moving well, feel like I’m in a good environment and I’m going out there and trying to make that happen.”

He said the hosts, who went into the five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy series as favorites, quickly overcame the shock of their heavy defeat in the opener.

“It became clear pretty quickly in this friendly that we wanted to go uphill,” he said.

“For me it was a reflection in the game of what we could have done better leading up to that result.”

“In itself, it’s pretty easy to move on, get over it and talk about what’s coming.”

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