Mayank Yadav not in Shoaib Akhtar, Lockie Ferguson category. But he's nothing like India have seen before

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As he stood at the top of his bowling mark, blissfully unaware of the buzzing anticipation around him, ones heart pounded just that bit harder, the blood raced just that tad faster..

The expectation of raw pace can do that, you know.L)..

He left the Garden City with two of each after a magnificent display, three for 14 from four overs, the scalps of Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green and Rajat Patidar deserved rewards for one of the finest spells of pace bowling seen at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium for a long, long time. ..

Mayank belongs in the Archer-Agarkar category, lithe and wiry, no visible strain as he hurls the ball with tremendous and we mean tremendous pace. 144 kmph is just the appetiser; the main course has 153, 155, all accomplished with such subliminal ease that you wonder where he generates the pace from..

But he needed only three deliveries to get rid of Maxwell, who attempted a pull without bargaining for the pace, was hurried into the stroke and suckered into hitting the ball up in the air..