Virender Sehwag - 319!!!!!

What a knock! Twenty20 style batting in Test Cricket! But...was it good enough to get the hype its receiving? One look at the track, i.e. pitch, and another look at the South African bowling that day is enough to tell you that it isn't. It was a good exhibition of the prowess of Viru but I am afraid to say, it wasn't as good a batting exhibition as it was made to look. Had Dale Steyn bowled the kind of deliveries that day like he bowled the next day, Virender Sehwag might not have crossed 100-150. His dismissal in the first innings of the second test just proves it. Give him good tracks and he isn't half as consistent as his averages show him to be. His test average of 53 is due to the huge knocks in Multan (309) , on a Lahore pitch(254) on which maybe Ashish Nehra would have made a few runs & on a flat Chepauk track (319). The newspapers said neither Sachin Tendulkar nor Sunil Gavaskar had as good an average as Sehwag has after 92 innings. I salute their audacity!!!! Somebody please go tell those idiots that when Sachin was playing his first 50-60 tests, there wasn't a concept of "flat" tracks. There were quite a few tracks which were good for batting, but no pitch was as flat and dead as the tracks on which Sehwag has made those huge scores. I don't think I need to go to Sunil Gavaskar's era where every pitch was either bouncy or had lots of turn. I think, after this knock, Sehwag would play for at least 10-12 more tests even if he scores 0 in every innings. That's how Indian cricket runs.
Unfortunate...but true.