5 best bowling pairs in world cricket currently

Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja (India)

This is an interesting pair, not as menacing as the remaining on the list, but effective nevertheless at home. While the pair is yet to prove themselves away from home or even play together much, given India fields only one spinner on foreign shores, they are absolutely sensational on the sub-continental tracks in India. Ravichandran Ashwin and Jadeja have different styles of bowling. Ashwin, the tall off-spinner has guile and variety.

Jadeja, the left-arm orthodox bowler has a deadly accuracy, bowling faster on spitting wickets and relying on natural variety. In the last 5 years, Ashwin has picked up 176 wickets in 32 Tests at 25.39, making him one of the fastest ever, all time, to 100 Test wickets.

In the last 2 years, Ashwin has 72 wickets in 13 Tests at close to 21 with as many as 7 5-wicket hauls. Jadeja during the same time has 32 wickets from 8 Tests, making an amazing comeback against South Africa at home, his wickets coming at 21, the same average as that of Ashwin.