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Pay dispute is bit of shame: Glenn McGrath

In the city on Tuesday with the MRF Pace Foundation team to train Mumbai bowlers in a two-day camp, McGrath said "It is a bit of shame. Hopefully, they can sort this and boys will play in Bangladesh and India tour."

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Glenn McGrath (right) in Mumbai for a 2-day coaching clinic
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Even as reports emerged of Australian cricket team mulling a pull out from the Bangladesh tour over pay dispute with Cricket Australia, the former Aussie great Glenn McGrath termed it as shameful.

In the city on Tuesday with the MRF Pace Foundation team to train Mumbai bowlers in a two-day camp, McGrath said "It is a bit of shame. Hopefully, they can sort this and boys will play in Bangladesh and India tour."

The dispute notwithstanding, McGrath said he is excited about the upcoming Ashes series between host Australia and England starting November. He backed the Kangaroos to come up trumps.

"It will be a good series I am looking forward to see four Aussies pace bowlers Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazzlewood, Pat Cummins, James Pattinson in the series or even in one Test. Three of them can bowl 145 plus it will be exciting to watch. Australia at home is always tough," he said.

The 47-year-old said that the seamers have to improve and evolve with the change of times especially in the T20 era. "The skill level of batsmen has improved so fast bowlers need to improve as well. Basics are the same but intensity has changed and you have to recover quickly. Facilities have improved so much and technology has come in. In T20 cricket, bowlers have to adapt to conditions quickly and bowl slower deliverers as batsmen get used to one pace."

About India fast bowler Umesh Yadav who had a great show last season, McGrath said: "You see fast bowlers getting injured all around the world as it is unnatural thing to bowl faster.

"When you grow bit older, body finishes growing and injuries are less. Umesh is also little bit older than he was couple of years before. He has lots of experience and knows how to prepare and recover. As we grow, we know our body better. He is bowling well but fast bowlers need off season for a bit of rest. He knows well how to recover."

McGrath, more of a line and length, said bowling fast comes natural to a bowler and it can't be taught.

"Everyone wants to bowl fast, I wanted to bowl fast, but no one is express. To be an express pacer is a unique thing. It's not that many bowlers can be 140-150 kmph quicker. "It is a raw talent, you can't teach that," he said.

"Express bowlers are very rare and I'm always on the look-out for one. India is probably the toughest place in the world to be a fast bowler, but that plays a part. But as I said (bowling) 150 plus (kmph) is rare," said McGrath.

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