India Are At The Forefront Of Fast Bowling Renaissance: Ian Bishop

Former West Indies pacer believes Team India is currently at the top of the fast bowling renaissance. The former cricketer-turned-commentator praised India for working on their fast-bowling department from years ago.

The likes of Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma and Umesh Yadav have made India’s pace bowling department quite strong. The emergence of the likes of Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar have further bolstered the pace attack.

“India are at the forefront, the vanguard, of this fast bowling renaissance because they obviously recognised this years ago,” the 52-year-old said in Sony Ten’s Pit Stop.

“If you want to be the number one team in the world, you cannot rely on your spinners all the time because when you travel to western countries, spin is apparently only a certain stage of the game, you have to have fast bowling and India have found that,” he added.

With the players nowadays having little time to relax thanks to the busy calendar and three formats, Ian Bishop called for managing the workload of the pacers, especially the leader of the Indian attack Bumrah.

“Jasprit is one of a small group of bowlers who transcend the various formats of the game. But you can’t expect him to last if he is playing every game in every format. The human body cannot do that. You have to manage these precious resources because he is a generational talent,” he said.

Ian Bishop further reckoned that world cricket is currently going through a golden period of fast bowling with Test number one Pat Cummins leading the way.

“I think we are in a golden period of fast bowling. You look at what the West Indies are bringing, then there is (Mitchell) Starc and (Josh) Hazlewood for Australia along with the number one-ranked Test bowler in the world as well (Pat Cummins),” he said.

Meanwhile, international cricket will finally resume later this month with the three-match Test series between England and West Indies. The series gets underway on July 8 in Southampton.

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