Is he worried by the drop in pace of Irfan Pathan and Zaheer Khan?
“Some bowlers start their careers as medium pacers and they finish up as fast bowlers like Imran Khan did. You have got others who start as fast bowlers but finish up as medium fast bowlers like Richard Hadlee. You have got other bowlers like Kapil Dev who were swing bowlers who bowled at 130 kmph. They got hundreds of wickets in Test cricket. “I am not sure Pathan has dropped that much pace — he still bowls 136 or 137 kmph from time to time. In Zimbabwe a few months ago he bowled in the high 130s. “He is a young man who is developing. There has been way too much emotion and energy devoted to this particular subject… There are not many cricketers in the history of the game at 21 years of age who have got the record Pathan has got. Let us accept he is not a fast bowler. Once we accept that we might not have all this emotional claptrap that goes on about Pathan”. World Cup 2007: “I do not have worries as such. I have some focuses. There are some areas we need to develop such as our b
