5 best bowling pairs in world cricket currently

Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc (Australia)

For a country that produces so many sensational fast bowlers, Australia haven’t had a consistent fast bowling pair in a while. Injuries and retirements haven’t hurt them though, given their persistent battery of bowlers. Although they have lost Mitchell Johnson to retirement, they boast of another exciting pair in Hazlewood and Starc, the latter just back from an injury.

Hazlewood has a McGrath-like aura, although these are early days. In the last couple of years, he has impressed with 70 wickets in just 17 Tests at 25.77. Starc has blown hot and cold in the whites, although in coloured clothing, he is the world’s best bowler going around.

Starc has picked up 50 wickets in 13 Tests in the last two years at 28. He has grown leaps and bounds from the time when he was more an apprentice to the likes of Johnson and Ryan Harris, a pair that has hung up its boots not so long ago.