No, but he has to score runs when the pitch doesn't resemble a highway. And second innings - my God, find a damn run in the second innings.
150 odd at Adelaide is good enough .... not a highway and batting in 4th inning
i don't know why it should worry ppl, if Sehwag has a better Ist inning record? As long as he is scoring runs in a test, thats fine
and i guess you voted for Merchant probably coz you never had a chance to see him play and thus form castles in the air by visualizing what you read abt him somewhere from ppl who never had a chance to see Sehwag!!! .... have you voted for Merchant just coz you never had a chance to analyze his batting? if you have analyzed his batting kindly show us why he should be opening in an all-time Ind X1
IS Merchant good coz he averages 47 in 10 tests!! And may be because he has a good FC record .... Shastri too has 1000+ runs @ 45 when opening for Ind and he has a good FC record too, why not him then as the partner to Gavaskar
However you look at it, Sehwag gets a place in the all-time X1, along with Gavaskar .... and as i said, if he is able to score 7000+ runs with 20 or more 100s by the time he has played 85 tests than it would be Sehwag as the best Ind all-time opener with Gavaskar and Merchant or whoever fighting for a place to partner Sehwag
ideally, thats how i would want that to go because I don't believe in leaving in the past and comforting myself how good things were in the past, along with old being the gold
if someone like Sehwag doesn't surpass Gavaskar then I would be upset as it would show little progress in terms of talent coming up in India
you don't want McLaren F1 to be the best sports car despite it being the best. you would want an Enzo to be built to take that title and in future something else taking that title. if F1 were to be the greatest sports car ever built than there is something wrong with the progress the auto industry is making .... similar is the case in cricket, if old remains the gold then there is something wrong with the talent coming through in Ind