Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, New Zealand vs India 2020, India
Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah. Photo Credit: Getty Images.

England legend Graeme Swann has said the current Indian pace attack can bowl out any team cheaply. The former spinner was in the West Indies in September last year when Indian pace trio of Jasprit Bumrah, Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami blew away the hosts.

India’s pacers shared 33 out of the possible 40 wickets among them as India whitewashed the hosts in the two-match series. Recalling the series, Graeme Swann said India’s pace attack is incredible.

“I thought it was incredible and I said at the time, this Indian team right now would bowl out any team in the world cheaply with this bowling attack. The way they’re bowling right now, and I stand by that it’s incredible,” Swann said in a chat show on Sony Ten’s Pit Stop.

Graeme Swann
Graeme Swann. Credit: Getty Images

India’s pace department has performed extremely well in the last couple of years or so. Bumrah, Shami, Sharma and Yadav have been a nightmare for oppositions. In 2018, Bumrah, Shami and Ishant picked up a total of 135 wickets and became the most successful pace trio in a calendar year in Test cricket history.

In 2019, the Indian pace quartet picked up 95 wickets at a staggering average of 15.16. This is the second-best performance from a pace unit in a calendar year for 50-plus wickets since the inception of Test cricket.

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In the past, no Indian fast bowler had taken more than 20 wickets at an average less than 20 in a calendar year. In 2019, India’s pacers broke the dramatic in a dramatic fashion.  Shami picked up 33 at 16.55, Ishant picked up 25 at 15.56, Umesh picked up 23 at 13.65 while Bumrah took 14 at 13.14.

Graeme Swann further commented on England’s shock loss to West Indies in the first Test of the ongoing three-match series. The former international said England probably did not watch how India beat West Indies in the Test series last year and blunted their pace attack by a wrong selection of team. He also said that England underestimated the Caribbean outfit.

“England were playing the Ashes, they wouldn’t have watched it. We were there and that was an Indian team, an Indian bowling attack in unbelievable form. Jasprit Bumrah was in incredible form in that series,” he said.

“I think England underestimated the West Indies, even subconsciously, and they picked the wrong team. England got their team selection wrong by dropping Stuart Broad. I will keep banging on about this. England blunted their whole bowling attack by not playing Stuart Broad,” he added.

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