The phrase "a formidable pace" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a speed or rate that is impressive or challenging to maintain.
Example: "The team completed the project at a formidable pace, impressing everyone with their efficiency."
Alternatives: "an impressive speed" or "a challenging rate".
It tells of a team who have lost any sense of collective responsibility with the bat (Dean Elgar's excellent innings in Durban showed what could be done with application) and a once formidable pace attack that is creaking a little now and depleted by injury.
The games have also offered a reminder of the formidable pace bowling of Mitchell Johnson of Australia and Ishant Sharma of India and the hitting power of Chris Gayle, the West Indian captain.
Restored to the team this year, he scored 386 runs in five innings against England's formidable pace attack, then added 123 at home in Kingston in a five-day test against New Zealand timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence.
Wahab is a bowler who, when he has the force with him, can create some formidable pace and had the England badge on Moeen's helmet not intervened, his first ball to him would have punched a hole in his forehead.
For seven and a half hours, in tricky conditions, he kept at bay one of the most formidable pace attacks that has taken the field.
It is 52 years now since Frank Worrell brought his West Indies team to England, with the formidable pace duo of Wes Hall, plus the controversial Charlie Griffith, whom many, Ted and Ken Barrington included, believed to be a chucker.
City's formidable pace up front shows itself again as Aguero romps down the center of the pitch before slipping to Sterling, who slots it through the keeper's legs.
India lost all five Tests by comprehensive margins, and their batsmen looked completely out of their depth against England's formidable pace attack, led by the fiery Fred Trueman and the underrated Brian Statham.
The opposition has threatened to pick up the pace of protests, but faces a formidable opponent in a president who has consolidated his power.
