Bishan Singh Bedi used to tell me the more you bowl in the nets the better you become, I think Arshdeep Singh has done that: Maninder Singh

Exceptionally talented batters and supremely gifted spinners were the USP of Indian cricket for decades. Now, quality fast bowlers, attacking as a pack has added more teeth to Indian cricket's bite. But there's one search that is still very much on in that department - the search for a quality left-arm pace bowler who can cement his place in the side, across formats. Indian cricket hasn't found anyone to fit into that role on a long term basis after the likes of Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra and Irfan Pathan.

(AFP Photo)On India's 2020-21 tour of Australia, T Natarajan was an unlikely hero - making his international debut across all three formats and delivering for the team. But like many others before him, Natarajan was pushed to the sidelines. In his case it was predominantly because of a knee injury flaring up and then a bout of Covid-19. There have been others like Barinder Sran, and more recently, Khaleel Ahmed who were given a run in ODIs and T20Is, but couldn't cement their place in the Indian set-up. Sran hasn't played an international match since 2016, while Khaleel last played for India in a T20I vs Bangladesh in November, 2019. But of late one young left arm medium fast bowler has been making all the right noises - Arshdeep Singh. Though he has played just six international matches for India so far (all T20Is), this 23 year old has managed to impress most former India cricketers, experts and pundits. The first thing that stands out about him is his maturity - which for anyone who has tracked him since his India u-19 and u-23 days through his IPL debut in 2019 to his India debut in July this year on the tour of England - has grown in spades. Apart from everything else that he has and can have, he seems to have a