New-ball skills, death-overs specialists, slower-ball experts, hit-the-deck bowlers, raw pace bowlers and more. When it comes to variety in a pace attack, there are a lot of attributes to consider. This makes the pace attack complete. Usually, such teams find it easy to tackle any challenge thrown at them. One-dimensional pace attacks usually lose steam through the competition. On that note, here, we take a look at the list of three teams with the best variety in pace attack for IPL 2024.
1) Mumbai Indians (Jasprit Bumrah, Dilshan Madushanka, Gerald Coetzee, Akash Madhwal and Nuwan Thushara)
In Jasprit Bumrah, Mumbai Indians have a pacer who can dish out six different deliveries in an over. He himself makes MI one of the strongest teams in this regard.
Now, they have a good all-phase bowler in Coetzee and a solid new-ball bowler in Madushanka. Nuwan Thushara is a talented death-overs bowler whom MI can rely upon.
2) Sunrisers Hyderabad (Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Pat Cummins, T Natarajan, Umran Malik and Marco Jansen)
SRH already had a diverse pace attack. With the addition of Pat Cummins, they have a solid option for the middle-overs. Cummins is also experienced and can deliver at the death.
While Bhuvi is a solid new-ball bowler, Umran Malik can bowl quick and Nattu is brilliant in the end. Marco Jansen may not find a lot of game time but he is a great backup to have.
3) Punjab Kings (Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh, Sam Curran, Nathan Ellis and Harshal Patel)
Punjab Kings is one of the teams with the best variety in pace attack for IPL 2024. With the addition of Harshal Patel, PBKS now has a pace attack that can thrive in multiple conditions.
Rabada can bowl in various phases and Arshdeep also has the skills to do that. Sam Curran, on his day, can do well with the new ball and with his variations in the death overs.
