Your point would only make some sense if the Ashes winning attack of England were consistently playing together as a unit after Ashes 2005. However, as we all know, that was not the case. The last time those guys played together was Ashes 2005. So, it was not as if the bowlers just got injured before the 2007 India series. Anderson and Sidebottom were still there and Tremlett was the 3rd seamer in that series. Hoggard has`nt played a lot of test cricket since then, neither has Freddie. So, I don`t think bring back, `If the Ashes attack was fit, India would`nt have won`. Its like the West Indies saying, `If our pace quartet of the 80s was fit, we would beat every side in the world`.
ENGs best attack going into that 2007 series would have been Hoggard/Sidebottom/Flintoff/Harmison/Panesar.
Realisitcally of the 2005 Ashes attack only Jones would not have played anyway. The rest of them (although Flintoff was in & out) would have played. Hoggard & Harmison who went through their entire English careers never missing a series through injuries both coincidentally for the 1st & only times in their careers missed that series due to injury.
Tremlett wouldn't have been near the side nor Anderson who was just getting back into the test side & is nowhere comparable to the swing bowler he was back then to the one he is now quite obviously.
If you want to hold on to straws like that, India`s openers in that series were Wasim Jaffer and Dinesh Kaarthik, not Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag. Tendulkar was going through the worst form of his life. Does that have a different ring to it? RP Singh was just making his mark on the international scene, so was Sreesanth. Zaheer was just back to the Indian side after a while. Your logic does not hold any ground, to be honest, simply because the Ashes 2005 bowling attack has`nt played together much after the 2005 Ashes for you to realistically wish they were playing in 2007 or now. That makes your assumption totally unrealistic.
Nothing i said i holding straws. The comparison you have made here to them is utter codswallop my friend.
Firslty Sehwag obviously didnt play in the 2007 series because he was dropped after a horrible 2006 in which every quality pace attack ***** him. Hoggard was the artchitect behind him averaging 19 for the series in India 2006. If IND didnt drop him for the 2006, Hoggard in career peak form in ENG conditions would have ***** Sehwag even more.
Plus im not sure how Gambhir comes into this. He was nowhere near the IND team until his recall vs SRI 2008.
So quite obviously your best opening pair on form (performances in SA 06/07)going into the 2007 tour to ENG was Jaffer/Karthik.
The current Sehwag/Gambhir partership touring ENG this summer however vs a quality ENG attack this time in what will likely be bowler friendly conditions. I'd certainly back Anderson/Swann & co to have more good days bowling to them than not.
On Tendy as i mentioned to Sharvi above. Tendy careers by 2007 had evolved from a early tennis elbow woes to a career decline of that 2002-2007/08 period before his recent revival. In which the world thought the Tendy of the 90s was gone forever.
Not sure what your point abt Zaheer & co is going. All i know that on tours to ENG, SA, AUS they bowled well as a unit during that 07/08 year. Unless your trying to tell you had better bowler available, that was obviously your best pace attack ATT.
So basically my point has always held water. INDs win in ENG 07 cannot be looked upon highly since they weren't tested againts ENG best unfortuntely. The only way they can prove that wins wasn't due to those lucky circumstances is to in 2011, win in ENG againts what will be a full-strenght ENG attack. Once ENG beats them next year, it will prove my point.
. Good job horribly mischaracterising my position. SMH 
