Lara is the Best bestman in the world howsoever Ravi Sashtri can shout his hoarse voice in the media about Sachin. Let him score a tripple and then a quadruple to compare with Lara.
Irfan Pathan promoting as opener is stupidity of the experimentation.I guess with these experimentation they will collapse the morality of the players confidence.Irfan is a fine player use him in occassional 3rd downs and promote him to 5th down if needed.
When we have shewag, Sachin,Gambhir and Dhoni why do we need Irfan and Agarkar to open the innings.
I guess now India is winning the matches so they are taking it as granted, Rahul people are watching.You just need a series loss.You don't get the same kuddos from the people.So watch out better your experimenatation.Build the confidence.If Sachin and Shewag can't open the innings get the new openers from the pool.You better come in as opener and set as example,but don't kill youngster confidence or his career.
If there is one person who stands tall as an epoch making all other look ordinary mortals, then he is the man, in a team that do not have any other player to be named besides him, he makes his way and kudos to him on reaching 11000 runs...the most enduring figure for his thirst to perform under many challenging circumstances. Simply Great...greatest!!!