Ahh..i am not sure which series you are seeing here, our bowling lets be totally honest lacks bite and venom, Pathan is an average bowler but he is young and has time to develop. Even then taking all things considered the amount of swing and variation with which Asif has been bowling (having only played a handful of matches) with quite an amount of bite. It took all of Dravid and SRT's class to take care of Asif and Gul, even these two greats were tremendously hassled by Asif and Gul.
If we had such a great variety and quality, as you say we do, the Karachi test should have been a stroll in the park for us, as we all know that the true assessment of a bowlers or a teams bowling quality is in test matches and not odis. Even a mercurial Glenn McGrath can get panned by a ramapaging Sanath Jayasuriya in ODIs on a given day. ODIs are batsmen paradise, 6 years ago 288 or 275 or even 250 were considered to be mamoth or winnable totals, today even 350 seems to be 200 of yonder years.
Also of the 3 named match winners Pathan was the only one who had a 5 wkt haul in the first innings of the 3rd test, Kumble at the end of his career still is better than Bhajji who seems to be going the great AA way, that is absolutely pathetic and ineffective. Lets call a spade a spade our bowling attack plain and simple is ineffective when compared with the likes of Aussies, Eng, Pakistan, NZL (with Shane Bond).
For India to win tests we need a genuine quick bowler or bowlers, who are then complimented with the likes of Pathan, RP Singh and Sreesanth. Also if we cannot defend a score of 328 runs talks volumes of our bowling capabilities, at some point of time or the other in ODIs when the batting fails and we end up posting a score less than 200 thats the time our bowling needs to step up and defend a small total. With the current bowling quality I have no hope of winning if we score anything less than 350 and even then i am not sure how much defendable that score is for Indian bowlers.
