They not only bamboozle the opposition batsmen but also enjoy a great time off the field with each other, revealed skipper Virat Kohli of India's modern-day fast bowling riches, featuring the likes of Ishant Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Shami, Umesh Yadav and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
The Indian pacers have flourished like never before under the inspiring leadership of Kohli and he can't help but heap effusive praise about them.
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"I cannot explain to you but you watch any funny movie that comes out in this day and age, compare it with these guys hanging out together, you will laugh more looking at these guys," the skipper told India Today. "I mean obviously you have to sensor things a little bit. I mean it is amazing."
"Ishant is the most senior, his legs being pulled around the most. Jassi (Bumrah) is very shy, very composed but amazingly witty. He would say things at the right time. Timing is perfect. Bhuvi (Bhuvneshwar Kumar) is proper UP ka you know, mazaak karne wala (likes to joke around). Shami again, he gets along and Umesh as well. Umesh bhi uski tang kheechta hain, you know."
Kohli has experienced times when only Zaheer Khan could be banked upon to provide India breakthroughs especially abroad. It must be special for him to see how the current lot goes about his business then.
"If you ask me, honestly no offense to anyone, but apart from Zak (Zaheer Khan) I think, in the previous decade or the team that we had, because Ishant was young as well, he wasn't this experienced, the Ishant Sharma that we have now, so you can't really count him in as the part of that attack that could have been formed because Zak was the only established sort of guy that you could rely on."
"I am sure even Zak would sit down and watch now and he would have loved to bowl with these guys because I see Ishant taking the new ball, Umesh coming back like that and then Shami..I mean everyone...not just us standing in slips but even the batsman are waiting ki Iska spell kab chalu hoga aur kab khatm hoga."
"You know that's the way he is bowling right now he can make things happen on any pitch at the moment," the captain concluded.
(Inputs from India Today)
