Classification of Indian pace bowlers

[vvvslaxman]

[Andy]

I Think Ishant can move the ball off the seam. He doesnt have any outswinger but seen him getting batsmen out caught off Edge, that must be the ball moving off the seam? And Praveen is 125k, Not 130k.

[punjabi_khota]

The Ishant Jaffas that raped pwnting were all moving away....pretty sure it was seam

[Laaloo]

Why is RP singh in the tried and tested when Munaf Patel is considered "established"?

[Nirvanam]

I think Sreesanth can definitely get bounce especially if we say Zaheer has bounce then Sreesanth also must have. Are the speeds average speeds? Average speeds I think Sreesanth will be closer to 140, Ishant at around 138.5 and Zak will be around 137. The top speed I have seen these bowlers bowl at - Ishant - 145 Sreesanth - 149 Munaf - 142 Zaheer - 145 Praveen - 132 Nehra - 146 Irfan - 142 RP - 142 Agarkar - 148 Srinath - 154 Right now, behind Zak I think it is Sreesanth. Put aside Disco's discogiri and he is a huge talent...he has serious pace (not like Akthar but more like Morkel), amazing seam position, and he is a genuine wicket taker and run-thru-the-order kinda bowler. Apart from Zak he is our only other destroy a line-up bowler. Ishant for all the hype has never really run thru a side. I just hope Dhoni shows more confidence in Sreesanth and learns to handle him well. Just coz Dhoni can't handle him it should be no reason for us to lose a talent like Sreesanth. The guy can win us matches and we need match winners

[Andy]

Ishant has clocked 152 And Nehra 148.

[fineleg]

Pls. change thread title to "Classification of Indian medium pacers" The overall classification for our 'pacers' is 'medium pacers' :D

[vvvslaxman]

Why is RP singh in the tried and tested when Munaf Patel is considered "established"?

I know. But RP hasn't played for India in a long time. Munaf has played.

[vvvslaxman]

Nehra,Zak and Sree can get upto 140k easily. But their average speed is around 135k. Ishant has lost his pace a lot over the last couple of years. I agree. Ishant does have seam movement. Balaji used to be an excellent outswing bowler before Sree's entry.

[Nirvanam]

Nehra' date='Zak and Sree can get upto 140k easily. But their average speed is around 135k. Ishant has lost his pace a lot over the last couple of years. I agree. Ishant does have seam movement. Balaji used to be an excellent outswing bowler before Sree's entry.[/quote']Actually with Sree and Ishant their average is closer to 140...135 is the lower percentile of their bowling. OK, let's keep a look out in the next Test

[Sooda]

Im not sure Zaheer is that fast anymore really Love the way its Yo Magesh in true tamil ishtyle..Trivedi has been around for a little while soubt he will ever come close to playing for India

[panesarv]

The Ishant Jaffas that raped pwnting were all moving away....pretty sure it was seam

A lot of them were inswinging deliveries

[Dravid]

u can put yo magesh, dinda, kulkarni and vinay kumar all in useless depart also

[fineleg]

Im not sure Zaheer is that fast anymore really Love the way its Yo Magesh in true tamil ishtyle..Trivedi has been around for a little while soubt he will ever come close to playing for India

Mahgays-u (without the h at the end) :hysterical:

[achilles]

Sreesanth and Zaheer are the best in the country. If only Sree was more consistent and Zak wouldn't be injury-prone, we'd have the strongest bowling attack in the world with either Ishant, PK or Ashish as the 3rd pacer. Also, Sreesanth is the fastest bowler playing for India, atm.

[fineleg]

Sreesanth and Zaheer are the best in the country. If only Sree was more consistent and Zak wouldn't be injury-prone, we'd have the strongest bowling attack in the world with either Ishant, PK or Ashish as the 3rd pacer. Also, Sreesanth is the fastest bowler playing for India, atm.

Sreesanth's middle name is inconsistency and that is the worrying factor since you never know which Santh will turn up on any given day.

[Andy]

Dinda Useless in LOI? WTF? Can bowl beter than any of our bowlers in last 10 overs.

[vvvslaxman]

Indian fast bowling cupboard is not as bad as Australia's spin bowling cupboard, Pakistan's batting cupboard. We have so many options. Just that nobody is making consistent progress.

[Cricketics]

With the height Ishant has, he can bowl faster then Zaheer, may be not as accurate as Zaheer, but definatley faster. If he can improve and be as consistent as Zaheer, then with his height he can truly be one of the better bowlers on Indian wickets. He has sometimes bowled execeptionally well on Indian wickets too. He bagged man of the series award during 07 b/g series in India. A bowler getting man of the seires is a rare, so he bowled that well in that series. I reaaly feel if we keep him little away from odi's which take place in sub continent, he would become more lethal in test cricket on desi pitches. Though we can't experiment that rite now, since world cup is aroudn the corner, and we need best of the lot..

[Sid]

Well first series MunAf played against England,he bowled some unplayable reverse swiniging yorkers and he is also capabl of bowling reverse swing and when it comes to slower ball,PK has the best one