That was Ricky Ponting's statement during the 2003 world cup in The Age news paper in Australia and its quite evident. "He will open and play a blistering innings or may be not but he will not be there till the end. And we know that when Sachin is gone we can run over the Indian team how mighty it may be." Thats why i say Sachin lacks to give a knock out punch.
Tomorrow Sehwag will hit a double ton, if India bats first and bats full 50 overs, unless of course, he gets the nature's call while in the middle as is the case in recent times.