Re: India’s current fast bowling attack - VERY WEAK
‘Fast’ bowling? These guys are hand-tossing cucumbers at 25 mph with their hour-long run-ups.
Rahul Dravid’s thoughts surrounding Irfan Pathan:
In the long run, five bowlers is the way to go. I truly do believe that. But to successfully implement the five-bowler strategy we need to have a good wicketkeeper-batsman - which we do in Dhoni - and an allrounder, preferably a fast-bowling allrounder from India’s perspective, because we’re generally going to have a couple of good spinners. Irfan [Pathan] was the person who could do that role but he’s unfortunately fallen away and has not been able to maintain his place in the side (CricInfo).
I have no idea why he is not being reintroduced into the side now that Chappell has phased out. Someone of his caliber, an all-rounder nonetheless, should be just continued with. No clue what happened to his status, one day it seemed like he just dropped from the face of this earth.