Munaf bowled really well.. a great find.. never seen any indian bowler with this bounce and venom.. maybe the england bats relax a bit with other bowlers.. and the soft dismissals follow. RPS should get more chances in tests. Pathan looked very ordinary. Munaf+RPS+Sreesanth is a pretty decent pace attack.
I think we are getting a bit ahead of ourselves here. Regardless of his 4 wkts, SS still needs to prove himself. Three of those 4 wkts came of batsmen playing at deliveries they could easily have left. Invariably this will happen once he's a regular bowler and bastmen play him on merit. RPS, he is as yet an unknown commodity. A game off on a pretty placid track shouldn't make us think IP is no good. I guess its his lack of pace that gets every one's goat. But honestly, he's got us a lot of wickets over the period we've unfortunately had to make him our spearhead.
In my books, pace bowling attacks dont become good overnight, esp by stringing together 3 or 4 bowlers who show promise. Genuine quality is needed in each. Thats hard to get. So far only Munaf looks like the genuinely promising one. Hope he holds up.
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