After the continuing dismal performance at Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium, Ahmedabad in NKP Salve Trophy Challenger Series., Viru's credibilty is being questioned.
The once dynamic batsman, playing for India Blue against India Red, fell for 9 after struggling to survive at the crease for 31 minutes. He offered a simple catch at cover-point to S Badrinath off medium-pacer Praveen Kumar.
However, he should be given more chances before writing off his career.
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Sehwag should be rested permanently, has been lucky to survive so long with absolutely no technique. Give chances to younger deserving players. Anyway the trio (Saching, Gangu, dravid) should be done with cricket in the very near future. Time to invest in new talent and not the same beaten ones. Laxman is much more deserving (as far as tests are concerned) than Sehwag. Laxman never got these many chances.
There are few batmen in the world who can blast away any bolwing attack in the world, can blast on any surface (swing/bounce/spin etc).
If we have to make list of such bastmen Sehwag is certainly there...
But then he has not been his former self and has got many chances, more than he should have, but i will still want to see him get few more...
Cause when he is on song its almost match over for the opposition...
We have had some good Test victories in the past 3 years overseas(Austrailia, Pakistan) and Sehwag's contribution has been immense. He scores fast...that gives lot of time for our bowlers to bowl the opposition....
So its simple, he is crucial for our success, but he is not amongst runs. So playing him will be a gamble which I think we should take....
Also one more important aspect, he has a good psycological edge over pakistan...has scores tons ..against them and so if he is not selected...Pakistani supporters will be more happy then sehwag bashers...
2 people to blame;; CHappel and Dravid:
If you see the batting order of india and Sehwag under Dravid as captain and Chapple as coach you will see what is the reason of the failures..INfact why Sehwag only..Even Kaif, Raina or even Tendulkar-at no.4 failed during their times becuase or horrible captaincy and coaching experiments...We did well at home with spinners and other bowlers doing well but failed horribly everywhere else..
As far as I remember; we have had Sehwag, Dhoni, Sachin, Gambhir, uthapa, ganguly, dravid himself and even Kaif-once open the batting in 2 yrs under dravid...and none of tht was due to any injuries...mmost time 3-4 of these were in the 11 also...
The only reason Ind won in tests is bcoz no batting order changes were made..I wonder why Sehwag was not given a chance in test instead of ODIs in Bangladesh..Dravid had some obsession with Kartick and luckily for him he did well;;; but i still want to see Sehwag in the team as he was only other batsman i love to watch besides sachin and dhoni-when in form...
He has filaed in Tests, not in one days:
It is clear that Sehwag has failed in the One Day games, but yet with fields up and the Test arena he still a force to reckon with! India should let him take on the Pakistanis in the TEst series and then decide who should go to Australia, cause I feel he warrants a place instead of Karthik. The second wickie should be P Patel and he is also a potential opener in good form!
Waste
Why do we need Sehwag. Just get him out.
Sehwag: You were given great chances to open innings and your average is just 31. Your are not a full time bowler also. No use of you.
Only Indian to score 300 in Test Match:
It really pains me to see such a player out of form for so long, he was the only other batsmen other than Sachin who made bowlers wet their pants before the first ball was bowled.Team India won't same again without him.
He deserves another series:
I believe Sehwag should be given one series (full series). He is the kind of talent that when it starts clicking will dominate the best. This is similar to what happened to Mat Hayden till he toured India in 2001. Sehwag is losing confidence. He did reasonably well in the T-20 games. He had a 60 score against the english and a 50 against New Zealand. He failed against Pakistan in the first game and in the game against Australia he was injured.
This writer wants to just create some sensation saying Sehwag is old story now. I dont really understand these idiots in Indian criket media.
When a player is down you try and help him if you can. If he is going down, you dont have to kick him down. Disgusting journalism.
How the mighty have fallen:
The bigger they are the harder they fall. I am sure hearts are broken as Sehwag's unfortunate downward trend continues
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