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Originally Posted by BrianLara7
You are right, and another reason Indians never succeeded outside subcontinent is their lack of bowlers specially fast bowlers. Even if one or two could bowl fast, they just weren't good enough. Likes of zaheer/ srinath had few good seasons but overall nowhere near great figures. Two best teams in cricket also unsurprisingly had arguably two best pace bowlers ever (Malcolm Marshall and Glenn Mcgrath) with support staff like Holding, Gillespie, Garner, Brett lee.

Now it has changed. They started MRF Pace Academy in 1987 now its paying dividends. They are still no where close to Pakistan (Who effortlessly produce pace bowlers), but still have unearthed very un-Indian like fast bowlers in recent times.