Bowling is the worry, not fab four

Anil Kumble is his name; India's greatest bowler and by far our greatest match winner. Take any of India's victory in last 18 years home or away, you will see Kumble taking atleast 5 wickets in a match (this is w/o exception). Such has been his contribution.

Replacing Kumble is the biggest worry for Indian cricket more than the entire Fab Four put together. Harbhajan is not in his class by any strech of imagination and to my mind he should not even be in the team (notwithstanding his one-off good performance in Sri Lanka).

The spin bowling cubpoard is very bare. India does not have a single quality spinner to replace Kumble. Piyush Chawla, Pragyan Ohja and Amit Mishra are some of our best spinners in domestic cricket. Dont see them playing too much international cricket though !

Over past 50 years India has always played to its strength at home. Always slow, dusty, crumbling wickets to serve likes of J Patel, Venkat, Bedi, Chandra, Shastri, Maninder, Kumble, Bhajji. Our bowling strenghts now will lie with our swing bowlers - likes of Ishant, Pathan, Zaheer, RP can move the bowl both ways in swining conditions. On their day, Zaheer and Ishant can bowl fast and generate good bounce. Given the sorry state of our spinning community, time is ripe to prepare fast, bouncing wickets to support our GenNext cricketers!