Ian Chappell claims that India have erred by not selecting Virender Sehwag in the squad for the tour of Australia. i would be inclined to agree this because I am a huge fan of Sehwag. in my opinion, he is much better suited to test cricket than odi's and t20. the high pressure environment in limited overs cricket has been sehwag's undoing too often. he bats much more fluently in test cricket where there are no limits. also, there are more attacking fielders in test cricket which allows sehwag to score to consistently quickly.

it is true that the current line-up has batted very well for the last 6 test matches. all the batsman have scored plenty of fifties with a few centuries in the last 2 tests. karthik, who was the leading scorer in england has suddenly lost his touch in the home tests. but given his success in england, i think he has a strong case for inclusion on the australian tour. jaffer has just scored his second double century and looks to have cemented one opening slot. laxman and ganguly were considered the middle order batsmen under the most amount of pressure but both have scored centuries, with laxman scoring 190 runs against pakistan with just the one dismissal. tendulkar and dravid cannot possibly be dropped against australia. and yuvraj singh has scored a hundred in the meantime as well.

so admittedly, it is a bit difficult to squeeze sehwag in at the moment. but i think in the interests of trying to win a series in australia, karthik or jaffer has to miss out to give sehwag a shot. an attack without mcgrath, with 4 fast bowlers including lee and tait is bound to be an absolute feast for sehwag....