Bringing up to speed: Finding India's right T20 pace arsenal
Kolkata, Aug. 18 -- As the envelope gets pushed every year by six hitters, the need for bowlers who can stop teams from running away with the games is getting more acute. And since the next T20 World Cup will be staged in India where the imbalance between bat and ball can be the most drastic, it's safe to assume taking 10 wickets won't get the biggest priority from the sides. How can India hope to tackle this challenge, especially the fast bowlers?
We will start with cues from the 2024 T20 World Cup final that was played on a similarly slow and unresponsive surface at Bridgetown, where India got nine overs from their slow left-arm bowlers Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja. Three spinners bowling 12 overs is par for Indian surfac...
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