With only nine more ODIs left for Team India before they play next year's World Cup, one of the areas that the team management is looking to further bolster is its pace bowling department. There is no doubting the fact that India's pace unit has been the best-performing department so far, consistently contributing across all formats, even when India's batting arsenal has failed.

There is no dearth of variety either, given Bhuvneshwar Kumar's menacing swing, Jasprit Bumrah's death bowling prowess, Mohammed Shami's lethal variations, Umesh Yadav's sheer pace and Ishant Sharma's experience. However, there seemed to be a vacancy in the left-arm pace department particularly after Saurashtra's Jaydev Unadkat was not persisted with beyond the T20I series against Sri Lanka earlier this year.