Legendary fast bowler Jeff Thomson has rated the Indian cricket team highly. The Indian team have done well in ICC tournaments winning ICC World T20, ICC 50 World Cup and ICC Champions trophy.
“I don’t want to get into the politics of appointment of India coach, whether it should be foreigner or India-origin because I have nothing to do with the Indian side. However, India will be a fine team irrespective of who is picked as the coach,” he told reporters at the second season of KSCA-IDBI Federal Life Insurance Bowling Foundation here.
“I don’t watch Indian Test bowlers unless they play in Australia and in my presence at the Bowling Foundation,” he said.
“It is hard to be a Test player in India because of a large population that results in big competition and therefore, they have to do something special and that’s what we are trying to do with the help of bowling foundation as ours,” he said.
Jeff Thomson praised Shardaul Thakur who was selected for the West Indies test series. “Shardul may have lost pace, but he has grown intelligent and bowling at right areas and learnt variation. When a fast bowler loses paces, he always bowls intelligently,” Thomson said.
“Shardul is good as anybody else. He has got all the tricks and all the ability,” he said.
Indian team have a strong batting line up in ODI’s consisting of Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Kohli, Raina, MS Dhoni. Indian team have good quality spinners in the form of Ashwin and Jadeja who have done so well. Indian team is currently 2nd in test matches, 2nd in T20 and fourth in ODI format.