Why can't Pakistan produce prolific fast bowlers anymore?

[subshakerz]

You can take your Guls and Sarfrazes (both averaging well north of 30) whoever mentioned Aaqib (54 test wickets) must be taking the piss. Pakistan is a barren wasteland when it comes to what you could term good to very good bowlers (say, average 25-29.9), especially pace bowlers (I'm more lenient on spinners but Qadir was terrible away, Mushtaq was good for two years and Kaneria was ugh). I have no doubt the generally poor pitches have a lot to do with this.

If you are good enough to average 25-30 as a pace bowler from subcontinent you are going to be leading the attack. Vaas and Kapil nearly averaged 30 and they were the best pacers their countries produced for decades.

Averaging in the early 30s is perfectly acceptable as a third seamer.

 

[Migara]

IIRC Starc's performance in SL was not much swing but mainly sheer pace on deliberately prepared slow, low, grassless turners. Certainly not an 'easy series' like you're disingenuously making out.

Starc was ****ing good in that series. Only left armer who bowled better in SL better than Starc in that series would have been Schultz in 93 SAF series. Haven't seen even Wasim as such in SL.

 

[Daemon]

Is this the series where both sides opening partnerships averaged single digits

 

[Kirkut]

Harbhajan turned into Bradman against us in one series!

That was a weird series. I mean India were 15/5 and Harbhajan blazes through with his 100 hitting 7 sixes!!