well chopra has impressed in this tough tour of australia, tough it remains to see if he can really construct his innings for a greater match winning performance rather then just surviving the intial overs. we can just hope that we witness a better open pair in test cricket in the likes of chopra and sehwag, who are better then the shrikant's and the great gavaskar's of one time. all the best to you guys, india is happening. after all you "TO BE THE BEST, YOU GOT TO BEAT THE BEST"
Every now and then we seem to find openers who barely survive the first session in every other innings they play. we seem to be content with these kind of openers for quite sometime until we relize that people just can't and don't learn on the job. they have to learn to do things right "before" they are at the job. they need to deliver on the job, not learn. Why can't we just identify batsmen who are opener material and assign them the slot instead of picking some guy, playing in some slot for his hometeam, and ask him to pickup opening skills? Dravid is a classic case, he is opener material just happens to play one down. There are so many players who can fit well in the middle order but very few are opener material. Our batting order should be Dravid, Sehwag (tests??), Tendulkar, Laxman, Ganguly, Bangar, Agarkar, ... We need to pack more bowlers in our team since thats our known weakness (until our batting also collapses). We must force our recognized batsmen to deliver and give more options to ganguly when it comes to bowling.
