Indian Fast bowling - the meteoric rise and a force to reckon with in world Cricket
If I had mentioned in late 70's or even early 80's that one day a touring International cricket team would be defeated by a local Indian XI and that too with the help of fast bowlers with in 3 days people would have thought that I had gone nuts and laughed at me. Those were the days when an Abid Ali or Govindaraj or Gavaskar used to open the bowling for 2-3 overs and Bishen Bedi would be rolling the new ball on the ground all the way to the bowlers so that the shine goes off by 3rd or 4th over and we would never see any sort of medium pace bowling again from Indians in the match. We used to watch the great WI and Australian fast bowlers terrorizing world class batsman with sheer pace in awe just dreaming whether at all India would get one bowler who can at least beat the bat one day. In came Kapil Dev Nikahnj and he was the perfect inspiration for the millions and millions of youngsters in India to emulate his legendary deeds
Now at last it's true and not a dream. The Board Presidents XI comprising future hopes like Munaf Patel, SS Paul and VRV Singh in a 3 day match routed the English text XI in less than 3 days with sheer pace and movement and to me this is one of the best things ever to have happened to Indian cricket in the last 10 years or so after Kapil left the scene. Irfan, Zaheer, Nehra, RP Singh, Sree santh, Balaji, Patel, Paul and there are many more knocking the door. All credit for this pace revolution goes to to the late visionary of MRF Mr. Mameen and the MRF pace foundation stalwarts Dennis Lillie and TA Sekhar. If at all there were two people who deserved the best award for coaches we can recommend these guys without battling an eyelid.
Common the future pace guns of India! We are proud of you and may be the torch bearers for many more such generations of fast bowlers to come!
RK
If I had mentioned in late 70's or even early 80's that one day a touring International cricket team would be defeated by a local Indian XI and that too with the help of fast bowlers with in 3 days people would have thought that I had gone nuts and laughed at me. Those were the days when an Abid Ali or Govindaraj or Gavaskar used to open the bowling for 2-3 overs and Bishen Bedi would be rolling the new ball on the ground all the way to the bowlers so that the shine goes off by 3rd or 4th over and we would never see any sort of medium pace bowling again from Indians in the match. We used to watch the great WI and Australian fast bowlers terrorizing world class batsman with sheer pace in awe just dreaming whether at all India would get one bowler who can at least beat the bat one day. In came Kapil Dev Nikahnj and he was the perfect inspiration for the millions and millions of youngsters in India to emulate his legendary deeds
Now at last it's true and not a dream. The Board Presidents XI comprising future hopes like Munaf Patel, SS Paul and VRV Singh in a 3 day match routed the English text XI in less than 3 days with sheer pace and movement and to me this is one of the best things ever to have happened to Indian cricket in the last 10 years or so after Kapil left the scene. Irfan, Zaheer, Nehra, RP Singh, Sree santh, Balaji, Patel, Paul and there are many more knocking the door. All credit for this pace revolution goes to to the late visionary of MRF Mr. Mameen and the MRF pace foundation stalwarts Dennis Lillie and TA Sekhar. If at all there were two people who deserved the best award for coaches we can recommend these guys without battling an eyelid.
Common the future pace guns of India! We are proud of you and may be the torch bearers for many more such generations of fast bowlers to come!
RK
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