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‘Chalo, at least weakness ko identify kiya’ – Fans react as Indian Cricket Board set to launch talent hunt to recruit future Indian fast bowlers

India also runs the MRF Pace foundation in Chennai.

Jul 10, 2023 2:02 pm

In what could be a game-changer for Indian cricket, reports state that the Indian Cricket Board is set to launch a country-wide talent hunt to discover young fast bowlers for the future. The Indian side had a fast-bowling revolution under Virat Kohli’s captaincy as he made sure that fast bowlers be given priority in Indian cricket. The Indian Premier League (IPL) has also given a lot of new fast bowlers such as the likes of Umran Malik, Moshin Khan, Akash Madhwal and others.

While the IPL has given a lot of options in terms of fast bowling, the Indian Cricket Board is looking at widening the pool and so it has come up with this step. The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) also tried a concept called hinterland scouting where they picked up fast bowlers from Jammu and Kashmir by looking at their videos. The likes of Avinash Singh and Himanshu Sharma were a part of this exercise. While they could not get a game for the franchise in IPL 2023, they could play for RCB in future.

Zaheer Khan lauded MRF pace foundation for his growth as a fast bowler

The other measures that the Indian Cricket Board have taken in terms of fast bowling have been the establishment of the Madras Rubber Factory (MRF) pace foundation where emerging young talents were trained under the tutelage of Dennis Lillee earlier and Glenn McGrath at present. McGrath in an interview had once revealed that Ankit Rajput and Ashwin Crist were fast bowlers to watch out for.

The likes of Zaheer Khan have talked about the MRF pace foundation on Breakfast with Champions. Zaheer said that the pace foundation helped him to clock at higher speeds and bulk up in weight. It remains to be seen whether the talent hunt that would be undertaken by the Indian Cricket Board would prove to be successful. Fast bowlers have shown their worth around the world and have made teams stronger, so the Indian management wants to try and make use of the talent hunt to increase the fast-bowling reserves in the country.

Let us take a look at the reactions on Twitter:

Kya fyda.. Jab select IPL ke performance se krna hai

— PARITOSH BEHERA 18 (@Paritoshh_18) July 10, 2023

We need to do this for spinners!!!

— Valyou Investing (@ValyouInvesting) July 10, 2023

Really then they should re-start the Talent Resource development programme once again to unearth the talents in small towns and villages
Batsmen,All rounders, Bowler's should also come

— Babu Bhuyan (@bhuyanbipra21) July 10, 2023

Much needed step. Even Bangladesh and Zimbabwe have bigger stronger seamers than us. Shameful tbh.

Prasidh Krishna, Umran Malik and Kartik Tyagi have a lot of potential. We need to work on their Conditioning.

— Indian Tintin (@IndianTintin_) July 10, 2023

Maybe it's too late??? I'll need to resign my job first.

— Harshal Chavan (@aye__hc) July 10, 2023

find good fast bowling all rounders as well

— RohitianByHeart(2) (@heartRohitan2) July 10, 2023

When places are booked and reserved for injured players like bumrah and others , what’s the use of search !!!

— sanjayjalaan( Modi ka Parivaar ) (@sanjayjalaan) July 10, 2023