India, Feb. 15 -- The absence of Jasprit Bumrah's genius often seems to cast a harsh light on the other pacers in Team India. When he is around, the others can feed off his brilliance. But with him being ruled out of the Champions Trophy, the spell is broken. Teams that would have looked to just play carefully will now be looking to go after the new ball.

It is this scenario that Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Shami, Harshit Rana and Hardik Pandya will have to tackle over and over again. And how they fare will have a huge bearing on the results.

In the Indian team's pace attack for the Champions Trophy, Arshdeep is the only one to have been a regular in white-ball cricket. Mohammed Shami is coming back from a long injury layoff while Harshit ...