Statistical analysis of India's overseas Test performances in 2018

Pace bowlers have been at their lethal best

The pace bowling trio of Bumrah, Ishant and Shami were at their best in both tours. All of them were able to bowl fast, accurately, at the stumps and more importantly swing and seam the ball. They reaped their rewards as they were able to do all of the above consistently. Add to this Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s swing and stump-to-stump bowling and India might have formed their most potent pace bowling attack in the last 8-10 years.

Despite some of the pacers having better numbers to show in the SA series as compared to the England series where they let the English lower order score, the pacers were very impressive overall in both the series. These pacers have learnt from their mistakes during their previous tours and have developed more control over their bowling and credit should be given to their bowling coach Bharat Arun for this improvement.