IND vs PAK, World Cup 2023: This Indian bowling attack has variation, pace and class

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What else can you ask from India? Three out of three and the most remarkable aspect is the way the players are executing their plans as a team. The bowling performance is a reflection of it. Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav to Ravindra Jadeja -- all of them took two wickets apiece against Pakistan in their third World Cup encounter in Ahmedabad on Saturday.

Someone rightly said that it is always the bowlers who win you matches and big tournaments. Although the Indian bowling hasn't been tested while defending, Bumrah & Co. is showing enough stomach to fight. In other words, India's bowling is clearly the best in recent times. Bumrah's stunning comeback and the last-minute entry of R Ashwin has actually boosted India's bowling immensely.

Dropping Ashwin in back-to-back matches perhaps defies logic. The team management, for some strange reasons, is mainly going with Shardul Thakur but it is only Ashwin who deserves to be playing in Ahmedabad. That is because the Ahmedabad stadium is big and there is enough for the spinners to make some big purchases. The fact that none of the Pakistani batsmen could hit a single six shows how big and strong this Indian bowling is. It is reflected in the fact that someone like Mohammad Shami isn't getting a place in the XI.

Even India's batting, thanks to Rohit Sharma, who is leading from the front, is also looking so good that any attack will find it difficult to stop the likes of Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul and Hardik.

It won't be wrong to say that the Indian bowling attack is even better than the one India had in 2011. Yes, there was Zaheer Khan. Ashish Nehra, S Sreesanth, Munaf Patel, Harbhajan Singh, R Ashwin and Yuvraj Singh, but none of them could put the fear of God in the hearts of the opponents.

Even the 2015 bowling attack was very impressive with most of them clocking over 140 km/hr, along with the attack that India had in 2019 but the 2023 is actually most special. That is because it has class, variation, pace and experience.