An unbeaten run in the World Cup is enough to paper over most cracks and India so far have managed to hide the lack of a wicket-taking bowling line-up by piling on the runs.
Throw a stone at India's 15-man squad and you will almost certainly hit a batsman who can walk into any international team. With a careful aim and some luck, you might also just find one such bowler.
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has categorically said that his side will at all times have seven batsmen and four bowlers, with a couple who can turn their arm over a bit making up the fifth bowler.
On Sunday one of those part-timers put in a sterling all-round performance that saved India's blushes and covered up the disturbing fact that India simply do not have a front-line bowler who can run through a batting line-up.
Yuvraj Singh took a career-best five for 31 with his slow left-arm off spin to weave a web around Ireland on a track that was conducive to spinners, while the regular tweakers went wicketless.
The only other bowler worth a mention in the match, and indeed who has been India's saviour more than once with the ball this tournament, was speedster Zaheer Khan.
It was Khan's impeccable bowling that tamed the Bangladeshi fight back, and his sensational three-wicket burst that halted England's charge, and again it was his two wickets at the start of the innings to that firmly pushed the Irish on the back foot.
On all three occasions, the lack of any genuine wicket-taking bowler to partner Khan and really nail the opposition with a couple of more wickets almost cost India the match.
While the Bangladeshi's fearless batting succumbed to the chase rather than the bowling, England's lower order swatted the Indian bowlers to eke out a draw and the Irish milked the bowling until Yuvraj came into the attack.
Khan has picked up eight wickets in the tournament so far to lead India's bowling charts and no surprise then that he has bowled most of the overs (29) along with off-spinner Harbhajan Singh.
The next best bowling figures belong to fast bowlers Munaf Patel (seven wickets) followed by Yuvraj (six wickets), but with more economical figures.
That a part-timer has a better analysis than the frontline bowlers underlines the lack of depth in India's bowling.
In fact the part-timer spinners, Yuvraj and Yusuf Pathan, have between them taken almost double the wickets than full time spinners Harbhajan and Piyush Chawla and they have conceded fewer runs per over.
That, though, is mostly because of Chawla, who promised much after a five-wicket haul in a warm-up match against Australia, but has delivered little -- two wickets and leaking over seven runs per over.
Harbhajan has been the most economical Indian bowler but only has a modest two wickets so far which is very surprising. Not for nothing has he been nicknamed the `turbanator' over the years though that sounds a misnomer right now.
It is said that fast bowlers hunt in pairs but that saying has clearly fallen on deaf ears in the Indian camp.
Khan's choices to lead the attack are:
Patel, who is leaking almost a run-a-ball and has at no point looked even remotely threatening; Sreesanth, who runs his mouth at almost the same rate he gives away runs and Ashish Nehra, who is on a well paid medical leave.
The lack of a Malinga, Steyn or Tait to partner Khan coupled with the lack of a Muralitharan, Swann or Tahir to partner Harbhajan might come back to haunt India. Sooner rather than later.
