A treat of an innings it may have been also from Sehwag but blunting the fast bowlers was even a better effort in the previous match. I wasn’t far wrong when I said that the grounds men needed an award for conjuring up a pitch, where really potent bowlers like Ntini and Steyn had been rendered impotent.

Forget about Shoaib saga, this is real cricket.

It is too late for me to comment on the subject now because, the match is over and I wasn’t able to comment due to some personal reasons, but as you all can see he did play a very good innings on the third day and took India to the shores. And, then the pressure started to build up by the end of the third day when he was 309 n.o. The media and the fans started to speculate whether he can break Lara’s record or not?

Shewag denied even before taking on the challenge on the fourth day he said: “Lara’s record is NOT on my mind.” He was lying. How can he not think of that? After all he is human and to have such feelings at the back of your mind is very normal. Anyways, the fourth day, like always he got out cheaply. But, it was a mammoth innings and a good one too. He deserves the due for playing a gritty innings.

Resting Tendulkar for the 2nd test on the grounds of fitness or whatever is a good idea, but instead of Mohammad Kaif, Irfan Pathan should have been included in the side, he is an inform all-rounder. Kaif, coming in place of Tendulkar after a big gap would be under tremendous pressure and may not be able to score. But, the selectors see it differently.

Talking of selectors, the Pakistani selectors are a bunch of jokers, they have not included a very good all-rounder Rizwan Ahmad and also excluded a very good middle order batsman, Saeed bin Nasir. The PCB should stop going round like beggars and dispose off with their “Kashkole” there is no self respect or dignity in begging in front of every single cricket playing nation to come in and fill in the void created by the Australians who abandoned the tour. Apart from Bangla Desh, the PCB approached Sri Lanka and they turned it down nicely because of the IPL commitments and then they approached South Africa. They refused it too, its hardly a few months ago that they were in Pakistan and beat them in test and ODI both. So, why would they be interested in playing against them?

This is ridiculous, how can the PCB officials be so disrespectful towards their own country? They should have thought about it before approaching these teams or their officials. But, beggars can’t be choosers they will always be like this and their actions are always pathetic and deplorable. It is about time Nasim Ashraf should resign. Enough of humiliation.

14th April-5th May vs Bangladesh

This match is heading nowhere but towards a boring draw. Playing for a draw is only justifiable when a series has been decided one way or the other.

now it seems it was wrong to drop sehwag in the first place. as a batsman he is a lot like afridi, you can’t tell just when he will explode and do something remarkable. abdul is right when he says sehwag will feel gutted not going on to make 400, lets hope he plays many more knocks like these.

However the game is 90% heading for a draw.