in 2005, indian cricket was again shrouded in controversy. after a somewhat slow season marked by a dip in team performance following the famous pakistan series ended, the coaching job passed from john wright to the australian greg chappell. saurav ganguly, whose batting form had taken a beating in that year, was involved in a spat with chappell over whether he should be continuing as captain to reduce pressure on him. this was followed by ganguly being dropped from the team and rahul dravid taking over as captain. while tendulkar, sehwag and dravid formed the mainstay of the indian batting, the coming of age of players like yuvraj singh and mohammad kaif led to the emergence of younger stars like suresh raina and ms dhoni. india, however have always struggled in the pace department with the only prominent pace bowler ever coming was zaheer khan