Missing quality support system

Too reliant on pace ace Bumrah, India need other bowlers to step up to the plate & deliver

- FIROZ MIRZA @ Chennai

SINCE January 2015, India won 23 Test matches overseas including 11 in South Africa, England and Australia. It was during this period that India defeated Australia twice Down Under. The trophy might have been lost now as India went down 1-3 in their recent visit to Australia but it began well when the visitors defeated the hosts by 295 runs in the series opener at Perth in November.

Stand-in captain Jasprit Bumrah was the architect of the famous win as he claimed a five-fer in the first innings and followed it up with a three-wicket haul in the next. He was rightly adjudged the player of the match but the speedster was well complemented by fellow Indian bowlers to help India beat Pat Cummins and Co.