This Indian pace battery has unusual variety and depth: Cook

Former England skipper Alastair Cook feels India's pace battery has variety and depth, something that they have lacked as a touring side all these years.

"India seem to have got a good variety of bowlers, especially pace bowlers, which is probably unusual. They have strength in depth in their pace bowling," said cook ahead of the first Test beginning here on Wednesday.

"Over the last couple of years - certainly in the last 10 years I've played them - they haven't had the option of playing five or six different types of seamers. That's different to what I have experienced in the past but we'll see over the next six weeks."
"And you make decisions every day about things which, before the days starts you don't know about, and you're captaining your country, which is the biggest honour a sportsman can know. I absolutely loved it. But I believed it was the right time (to quit) for me personally."