When Pakistan stumbles upon 150 kph fast bowlers, its instinct is to fast-track them into the national team. India, meanwhile, is conservative. It is inclined to bring out cotton wool, preserve them and pray they remain injury free. So when Lucknow SuperGiants bowler Mayank Yadav, 21, consistently carpet bombed the opposition with his 150kph plus strikes in the first two games of this IPL, two views floated around. Voices from Pakistan, and a few in India too, said ‘blood the boy into the Indian team’. His coaches in Delhi, though, appealed to show restraint. The contrasting psyche of the two cricket-crazy neighbours has been shaped by the screaming disparity of their fast bowling stock over the years. Considered an exotic species in India; genuine quicks in Pakistan get produced on an industrial scale. But for Pakistan the abundance of pace-wealth has come with a ‘resource curse,’ a term mostly used by economists to explain the fiscal and social vulnerability of oil-rich nations that put all their eggs in one basket. Perpetually hoping to discover the …