BCCI President, Sourav Ganguly reckons that the improved fitness levels of the Indian players has helped the team management to produce one of the world’s best pace attacks. Indian bowling spearheads Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah lead a team of five formidable pacers that have helped change its image of having a dependency on spinners.
During a chat hosted by on the BCCI Twitter feed, Ganguly said, “You know culture has changed in India that we can be good fast bowlers. Fitness regimes, fitness standards not only just among fast bowlers but also among the batters, that have changed enormously. That has made everyone understand and believe that we are fit, we are strong and we can also bowl fast as the others did.”
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In the 1970s and 1980s, the Widnies pace attacks dominated the world as they were led by fearsome bowlers such as Michael Holding, Andy Roberts, Malcolm Marshall, and Joel Garner. Recently Indian bowlers gave emerged as fearsome for a lot of batting line-ups as the pace attack of the men in blue comprises of Shami, Bumrah, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Describing the same, Sourav said, “The West Indies in my generation were naturally strong. We Indians were never such naturally strong… but we worked hard to get strong. But I think it is the change in culture as well that is very important.”
Last month, Shami went on to give a bold statement the current Indian pace battery can be termed as best in the history of Test cricket.
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As per the quotes in NDTV, Shami said, “You and everyone else in the world will agree to this — that no team has ever had five fast bowlers together as a package. Not just now, in the history of cricket, this might be the best fast-bowling unit in the world.”
Shami scalped as many as 13 wickets during India’s 3-0 home Test sweep against South Africa in 2019, while Bumrah has claimed 68 scalps in 14 Tests since his debut in 2018.
