Indian Origin Fast bowlers

A few years back in his blog India Uncut, Amit Varma had bemoaned the absence of indian origin fast bowlers, even outside India. I had pointedout to the numerous fast bowlers plying their wares in England hailing from South Asian origins.Amit pointed out that he was talking of "Indian", origin fast bowlers and those that I was referring to were with Family ties in Pakistan.As a trained critic I wanted to quibble, that those carrying on the heritage of Indian Fast Bowler Jehangir Khan, and nationals of the UK, were of indian origin.However I gave up as even India had produced only Fast medium Bowlers from Kapil to Srinath and I did not know how Amit would view Nissar and Jehangir Khan.I searched my memory and could come with no one but the Guyanese military medium bowler Kamal Singh.

Today,four years on I was happy to note that the Sky Coverage of the Pakistan West Indies test put down Ravi Rampaul as "Fast" Bowler.Rampaul is from Guyana and decidedly of Indian origin and gets into theteam over Edwards and Taylor and generates good pace.What is even more contextual is that Rampaul is contemporary of two Resident Indian Fast bowlers,Ishant sharma and Varun Aaron.The bogey of India not producing genuine quicks and the diaspora also producing quality spinners like Ramadhin but not Fast bowlers has been laid low and the future generation of Indians and PIOs can point out to a few quicks of their own.