With the early Test retirements of Mohammad Amir and Wahab Riaz, Pakistan was forced into picking quite a few young, inexperienced pacers for the tour of Australia and then at home versus Sri Lanka. 

And bowling coach Waqar Younis feels they are the ones who'll now continue the country's great tradition of fast bowling in the future. 

Waqar is pinning his hopes on the likes of Naseem Shah and Shaheen Afridi to take Pakistan cricket forward. 

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"It has to be the chance to work with some excellent young fast-bowlers," ANI quoted the former Pakistan pacer as saying. "Who wouldn't want to work with Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Mohammad Hasnain and some of the more established bowlers like Hassan Ali and Faheem Ashraf? I have got a bunch of guys who I feel can be a force."

"If you look around the world, the most successful teams are the ones who have a group of pace-bowlers across all formats and who have specialists across all three formats."

While Shaheen looked the most likely bowler to provide breakthroughs down under, Naseem stole the limelight with his pace and hostility at Karachi in Pakistan's famous win. "Shaheen is maturing very quickly, he likes to learn and is keen to perform and I'm really pleased with how he is progressing as a bowler," Waqar said. 

"I have spoken with the PCB hierarchy about players' finances and managing their workloads as each Test match counts towards the World Test Championship and we have to manage Shaheen's and the other pacers workloads."

"I am sure the board is working on this and they will come up with some sort of agreement to help and work with the players," he added. 

And those two aren't the only ones Waqar feels excited for. "Ehsan Adil is one bowler that I am keeping a close eye on and he is someone who has been bowling well this season, can bat and is a handy fielder too," he said. "I have already mentioned some of the group of pace-bowlers we have at our disposal and in addition, Usman Khan Shinwari is an impressive bowler."

"What I am trying to do is to have this group of pace-bowlers and to keep a very close eye on this batch and monitor their progress very closely. We are planning to have another camp for pace-bowlers ahead of the series against Bangladesh and that will also give us another opportunity to look at the pace-bowlers," Waqar added. 

(Inputs from ANI)