ICC Champions Trophy 2017: Top 5 takeaways for ODIs from the tournament

#3 Mystery in the bowling attack

Hasan Ali ended up being the leading wicket-taker

The teams that did not have a mystery quotient in the bowling line-up were hurt badly. Whichever teams had variety in the armoury were the ones that moved forward. If the bowling attack is monotonous, it gets easy for the batsmen to attack.

The mystery doesn’t necessarily mean to possess mystery spinners. It can also mean to have bowlers who can reverse the ball like Hasan Ali did for Pakistan. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit did the other job well of bowling yorkers and slower balls at the death and that worked well for India.