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Irfan is a swing bowler and is now bowling at 135kph constantly.he can be lethal if he does swing the bowl in tri series.and team india now has three fast bowlers umesh yadav,ishant sharma and varun aaron who can bowl at 150kph.Varun Aaron is the fastest bowler of india.Even Wasim Akram admitted that Zaheer Khan is the best swing bowler in the world today. And express pace isn,t always necessary.for ex:india had nearly won the test series in south africa last year with zaheer and sreeshanth.
Then wasim akram was too kind.........but seriously swing bowlers may win you matches on seeming,green top tracks, but on flat or bouncy tracks they can't do anything ...they become a "hit me" bowlers ..... swing bowler doesnot mean that you loose your pace or ball at too low pace .....
Even Wasim akram was a best swing bowler of his time and best left hand bowler the world has ever seen but if you see he was fast in his early days then he got diabetes and was forced to bowl with short run-up but still his pace was very good somewhere around 145 even when he got aged and diabetic patient ...
Its lot to do with the build of the bowlers and the training they get during their first class carrier ....and btw if you check out the last few matches irfan played for india his pace was around 125 most of the times and even on few occasions commentator criticized him for that, along with no swing in later part of his career the drop of pace was also a reason to drop him
Parveen kumar is another example ...you provide him a green top specially made for him he will be handful but you make him play on flat decks or bouncy decks he looks like a part timer who can be hit all around the ground ....england series was a glimpse of that ...
Umesh and ishant on the other hand can bowl bit quick but have you seen their record specially that of ishant apart from 2008 aus tour when did he last time looked a threatening bowler? when a bowler comes to the scene he usually has success against most because the batsman havent played him before they dont have studied him and his bowling action but once you are introduced batsman around the world came to know about you and study you, then its a different ball game