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Weak bowling attack India's biggest World Cup concern: Kirti Azad
Former India cricketer and
member of the victorious World Cup team of 1983, Kirti Azad Saturday
said with the present bowling line-up reigning champions India will
suffer badly at the upcoming quadrennial event starting Feb 14.
“With
the kind of bowling line-up we have, we have to suffer,†Azad told the
media and audience present at the Kolkata literary meet where he and
other panellists discussed the victory at the '83 World Cup.
The
56-year-old, who fondly remembered getting English batsman Ian Botham
out in the semi-final in 1983, also added that cricket is a strange game
where anything could happen in an instant, thus refraining from
predicting India’s chances at the Cup.
“It is a funny game, you
never know, the bowling will have to come to the forefront and deliver,
if it does not then India can be knocked out before the semi-final or
even before that,†he added.