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\nIndia\u2019s cricket chief Sourav Ganguly says improved fitness standards and a change in culture have led to the country developing one of the world\u2019s best pace attacks. Spearheads Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah are part of a battery of five formidable quick bowlers that have helped change India\u2019s traditional reliance on spin bowling. \u201cYou know culture has changed in India that we can be good fast bowlers,\u201d Ganguly said in a chat hosted on the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Twitter feed.
\n\u201cFitness regimes, fitness standards not only just among fast bowlers but also among the batters, that has changed enormously.
\n\u201cThat has made everyone understand and believe that we are fit, we are strong and we can also bowl fast like the others did.\u201d
\nThe West Indies dominated world cricket in the 1970s and 1980s led by a fearsome pace attack that included all-time greats such as Michael Holding, Andy Roberts, Malcolm Marshall and Joel Garner.
\nRecently Indian quicks have risen to the top in world cricket with Shami, Bumrah, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav and Bhuvneshwar Kumar in a deadly arsenal.
\n\u201cThe West Indies in my generation were naturally strong,\u201d the former India captain said.
\n\u201cWe Indians were never such naturally strong… but we worked hard to get strong. But I think it is the change in culture as well that is very important.\u201d
\nShami last month claimed that the current Indian pace attack may be the best in Test history.
\n\u201cYou and everyone else in the world will agree to this — that no team has ever had five fast bowlers together as a package,\u201d said Shami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
online ISLAMABAD India\u2019s cricket chief Sourav Ganguly says improved fitness standards and a change in culture have led to the country developing one of the world\u2019s best pace attacks. Spearheads Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah are part of a battery of five formidable quick bowlers that have helped change India\u2019s traditional reliance on spin bowling. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n