Has India unlocked the secrets of Malcolm Marshall?

[al Furqaan]

I was running some analysis of the WC so far and what took me by surprise was how well India is doing. They are actually the best team in the World Cup according to my numbers (will publish final results after the group stage, so you'll have to take my word on it for now) just pipping NZ.

The other thing is how India's seamers have done. They seem to have moved away from the tall, quickish seamers they experimented with for most of the last decade (Munaf Patel, Ishant Sharma, etc). Now, they have a bunch of vertically challenged, yet surprisingly quick and slippery seam bowlers.

Shami, Aaron, Mohit and Bhuvi look more like vascular surgeons than they do spin bowlers, forget about international standard quicks (like the backhanded compliment?). Only Umesh Yadav, with his decent physique, and thuggish appearance looks anything like a quick bowler. And even he is well under 6 feet tall.

We all know Aaron's pace...but even Shami is cranking it up past 90 mph regularly, Yadav is just short of express pace, and even tiny Mohit is hovering in the low 140s.

Quite impressive given their physiques!