"The advantage India have this time is that, whatever conditions are rolled out by the hosts, they have the attack to make the most of them.” Said Former India coach John Wright.
"They have a lot of firepower to call on and I'd imagine New Zealand will want to do just the opposite this time and ensure the pitches are pretty flat. But India will possibly want to settle a few old scores after what happened in 2002-03," Wright said.
"India must be very excited about his potential. We've only really seen him bowling in subcontinental or Australian conditions, where it's pretty hard work for the pacemen," Wright said.
"You'd expect once he gets to a place like New Zealand or England, where the conditions favour the seamers more, he'll be at least as influential again. You can't overplay his importance right now," Wright told a cricket website.
"That's probably the biggest difference between the India side of today, and the combinations of previous years, the bowling.
"It now has everything pace, swing, left-arm variation, wrist-spin and finger-spin. When I was there things were just starting to turn but now you really see the difference," he said.
"It used to be that the most successful Indian sides were renowned for their batting. These days the batting's still strong but India have made huge gains in terms of the bowling. They've probably got the best attack in world cricket at the moment, when you think about it.
"And the good news is that the gain hasn't come at the expense of the batting. Any side with VVS Laxman, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Gautam Gambhir and Mahendra Singh Dhoni is going to run up some totals," he added.
