Stop everything. Drop what you are doing. Ravi Shastri may have undersold an achievement of India's Test team.
He has talked the attack up plenty, of course. In August, he announced that the team's quicks were the best India had ever had, "by a mile". But as India has for so long been the proud home of profoundly unsexy medium-pace bowling - generations of seamers diligently delivering standard-issue, ruler-straight balls at 130kph like there was a government ban on putting batsmen in discomfort - this was not exactly high praise. India's best pace attack? So what? This is like being the least annoying mosquito, or the prettiest naked mole rat.
South Africa, meanwhile, have been talking a big game about their bowling, and perhaps for good reason. During the recent Pakistan series, the captain, Faf du Plessis, said he believed he had the most potent attack on the planet. Dale Steyn then recited the averages of several of his bowling team-mates and asked: "Who's better than that?"
On the face of it, Dale, no one. But India are very close. Since the start of 2016 - a long enough time for these teams to have toured at least five of the top nine Test nations - South Africa's attack has the best average, but is closely followed by India's. Because in bowling parlance three or four average points is a substantial distance, the two attacks can be said to be well ahead of the pack.
(For the purposes of this article, matches featuring Zimbabwe, Ireland and Afghanistan have been excluded, partly because they will not be part of the top tier of the forthcoming World Test Championship).
TEAM BOWLING AVERAGES
SINCE 2016
37.0
BAN
24.8
SA
26.7
IND
30.4
AUS
31.8
PAK
31.8
ENG
31.9
NZ
32.5
WI
35.1
SL
37.0
BAN
The really interesting revelations, though, come when these figures are broken down further. South Africa's outstanding team returns, it turns out, are down largely to their attack's dominance at home. Since 2016, no side has maintained a better home average than their 22.36.
The same must be true for India, right? I mean, this is the team that famously sets their relentless spinners loose on dustbowls. Who have their pitches "doctored", as portions of the Australian media might claim. Are they not banking on their home bowling average as well?
Not quite. Since 2016 - a period in which India have toured West Indies, Sri Lanka, South Africa, England and Australia - their away bowling average is actually slightly better than their home bowling average. They are the only team of the top nine for whom this is true.
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