missing india's pace attack

India
February 17, 2007 6:28am CST
During the previous world cup,we have seen a great Indian pace attack constituted by Pathan,Nehra and Balaji. But it is missing now.WHY?
2 responses
@hiveenu (521)
• India
19 Feb 07
Hi, I'm sorry to disagree with you. For this world cup, we have genuine tearaway fast bowlers like munaf patel, and sreesanth. They are capable of bowling upto 140 to 145 km/hour speeds if need to. Also, we have zaheer khan and ajit agarkar who can clock between 130 to 140 km/hour. Even pathan has improved his speed of late to around 130 to 135 km/hour. I can confidently say that india never had such aggressive and tearaway fast bowlers in any previous world cup edition. Another good aspect is zaheer, munaf patel and sreesanth are brimming with confidence while agarkar and pathan are capable of performing adequately. We must not forget that the previous world cup was conducted in bouncy pitches where naturally any medium pace bowler will look menacing if he pitches in the right areas. Probably that caused your illusion regarding the present bunch. But the truth is, the present crop of pace bowlers are more talented and faster than the previous world cup indian pace bowlers without doubt. Finally, one small correction; I don't think balaji was there in the last world cup. Thanks.
@bck_1409 (662)
• India
17 Feb 07
My dear frien in the last WC I think Irfan and Balaji both were not there, This time I think India is having really good pace attack, guys like Sreesant and munaf can bowl fast upto 140km, Ajit and Zaheer also not bad fast bowlers they to can bowl 140km easily