If a legend like wasim says this about zaheer its likely to be true.Zaheer and Praveen are equally effective on almost dead wickets of indian subcontinant as they are on seaming pitches.And why praveen is successful everywhere is because he swings the ball both ways and is unpredictable.remember world cup 2011 semi-final,munaf,zaheer and nehra bundled pakistan for 221 on a good batting pitch.
irfan used to bowl at 140kph when he first came to the scene.he even took a hat-trick against pakistan on a good batting wicket in karachi.if he regains his vigour,he will be tough to face on any pitch.
You are right about ishant,i agree.he just bowls fast and has little control over line & length.But umesh and varun are bright prospects.The current indian bowling attack is better than what we had in the world cup but still we won.A team can not win the world cup just by there batting strength,so it means that indian bowling is very underestimated just as the indian batting is overestimated.And to remind you world cup was played on flat decks.
let me correct you buddy on that and lets take it brotherly...to be honest both wickets you are talking about were not batting friendly
First start about the semi final you are talking about ....firstly Pakistan team was not bowled out if i remember correctly rather the overs ended and misbah was still on crease .... secondly the wicket was not easy at all....india managed to make just 260 runs and for that you should thank raina because at one stage india was ~160-5 wickets and if you remember correctly even sachin was not able to bat with ease on that track...he made 60 but he was dropped by atleast 4-5 times ...... after a very good start by sehwag the whole indian batting line-up struggled and was restricted to 260 ...that particular pitch was pretty slow...the ball was not coming onto the bat specially with old ball ...that means the more slower you ball the more difficult it is for the batsman to play... and also for me the main wicket taker in that match was youvraj ....when he came to bowl Pak was in very comfortable position but as the pitch was slow thus the ball was more gripping and turning and as youvraj balls pretty slow so he extracted everything out of that pitch and provided india with back to back wickets...
Now coming to Karachi pitch in which pathan took hatrick ........... i couldnot believe that you said that pitch was batting wicket.ooppsy .....i think you have never played cricket (no offence though) the ball on that pitch was swinging a mile ....that was a total fresh green top wicket which had Pakistan 36-6 but kamran akmal came he scored wonderful century and Pak team reached somewhere around ~240 runs and guess what Pakistan won that match by huge margin ...in both innings india was bowled out for around ~200 runs........ now will you say that pitch was flat????? better ask anyone who is close to you and plays cricket he will tell you about that pitch...and also try to check out that match on youtube...find out that video and then analyze yourself....even an insane in his dream can't say that the pitch was flat
Third point about winning world cup with this bowling attack , there were two main reasons
1- use to of home conditions
2- thanks your stars
If we go back and analyze your teams bowling performance team wise and with every match
1- Bangladesh scored ~300 runs against your bowling attack, at one stage bangladesh was only 2 down and were looking threatening to come closer to indian total
2- SA chased down around 300 runs against you guys batting second
3- England tie a match against you guys , chasing a massive score of around ~335
i can go on and on
Lets take it in this way Zaheer khan is a good bowler and best bowler compared to your own bowlers ...but not overall ...it will be no justice to many other fascinating bowlers declaring zaheer as the best bowler.... you have class bowlers in other teams in lights of those too who have taken un-countable wickets through out there carrier
