3rd Test , India vs England @ Mumbai

[nikhil25]

Re: 3rd Test , India vs England @ Mumbai

@Some1

Since you think I have a good Cricket IQ…I hope you believe me when I say that Sehwag’s days as a Test opener is numbered regardless of whether or not you agree with my opinion about him. He may not be dropped tomorrow but it is only a matter of time.

In fact, I have a feeling that secretly Chappel also does not have a very high opinion of Sehwag as a test opener. When Laxman(instead of Sehwag) opened with Dravid in the first innings(closing hours of the first day) of the Karachi Test, I was convinced that the Indian team mgmt themselves did not have enough confidence in Sehwag to survive till the end of the day so they sent Laxman instead. Any sane person can tell that Sehwag is extremely unreliable and basically a hit-or-miss player. Before he scored that painstaking 76 in the last test , already some murmurs had started in the media about his spot in the team.

ps> Just to be clear, I do not hate Sehwag the way I abhor Agarkar or Ganguly. I like Sehwag just like Pakistanis like Afridi. But just as Afridi is not regular Test Opener material , so is Sehwag. Now you may say that Afridi and Sehwag are different…possibly they are…but in the context of not having the classic Test Opener temperament - they are the same.

if not temperament, then to what do we attribute Sehwag’s long list of huge scores (requiring a batsman to last) in test cricket…a triple-ton, a few of double-tons, and a bunch of centuries above the 150 run mark. A few dropped catches here and there cannot produce this kind of resume, and neither can pure sloggers (like Afridi).

i would come to the same conclusion as you just by watching him, but his record is there for all to see. sure, he has consistency issues…but any alternative will have the same constistency issues, but without the devastation and without the big scores. What talent pool are we talking about here? I am probably much less informed about the domestic players and potentials than you, so please relate any batting prospects that you know of.

either way, i think Sehwag’s star power has secured him a spot for much longer than his cricketing abilities warrant. though again, i think he is currently far from that point.