Sehwag... nobody seems to care.. Surprise.. surprise !!

[Ram]

Sehwag dropped for the upcoming tour... for both odi's and tests... no reaction from icf'ers.... nobody cares now i guess...

[Zap_Brannigan]

too little too late

[Chandan]

I do care. I'm very disappointed even if I strongly disagree with Bumper that he is better than Sachin!! I think he should have been chosen for tests in England. His absence will haunt India certainly there.

[Holysmoke]

I dont care. I feel he deserves the sack.

[apocalypse]

I think few more should have been dropped along with him. If not then this tour should be their final chance

[Guest dada_rocks]

They will rue this decision..........

[yoda]

I hope Sehwag is just the beginning of getting rid of non-performers, minnow-performers, once-in-three-series performers, flat wicketonly performers, ...

[veer]

I am really losing interest in cricket these days.. there are other problems in world than care about BCCI circus..

[Lurker]

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Let me earn his way back in the team. No free-loaders allowed.

[Predator_05]

It was expected.

[Ram]

I thought he looked O.K in the afro-asia cup.... strange...

[ludhianvi]

Sehwag should have been in the tEst team for sure. Without Sehwag, our top order is very sedate and so is the middle order. We needed that someone to take the attack to the opposition. Many people are mixing ODI and Tests. Sehwag in tests is more dangerous and an important part of our Test team setup.

[King Tendulkar]

maybe unlucky not to be in squad. as if he had struck form in warm up games then he would have been asset

[DesiChap]

Sehwag deserved to be dropped an was rightfully dropped.

[Dhondy]

India are a club team without Dravid & Sehwag.

[DesiChap]

Sehwag in his last 10 tests:

Mat Runs HS BatAv 100 50 W BB BowlAv 5w Ct Stunfiltered 52 4155 309 49.46 12 12 14 3/33 48.14 0 44 0filtered 10 541 180 30.05 1 2 11 3/33 24.45 0 8 0

[Dhondy]

Openers often go through very lean patches. The new ball is very unforgiving, and players do lose their confidence. Remember the horrid patch Hayden went through a year ago? He couldn't buy a run if his life depended on it. Speculative articles cropped up like toadstools all over the world about how the chop was imminent. It never came. Hayden got over his lean patch and returned to fearsome form. The confidence returned and flowed. Australia is not the only team to stand by its stalwarts. South Africa's Graeme Smith and Andrew De Villiers suffered terrible dips in form. They were persisted with. England are doing the same with Andrew Strauss. Point is, batsmen like Sehwag don't come along very often. He's fearless, has a fantastic eye and backs himself. He averages 50 at the very highest level of cricket over 50 Tests. That didn't happen by chance. He is a very special batsman. If you believe in somebody like that, you back him through lean times. Odds are, he'll come out on the other side of it an even stronger player. He wasn't given the chance. The English bowlers won't be complaining. There's not a single bowler who walks this earth who would mind bowling to Dinesh Kartick in Sehwag's breach. The other point I wanted to make is that India's top six are very similar- dour batsmen who persevere, but struggle to dominate attacks. They have got rid of the one batsman who could. Cricket just isn't the same for me any more.

[Bumper]

What a bummer of a selection move this one is.

The other point I wanted to make is that India's top six are very similar- dour batsmen who persevere, but struggle to dominate attacks. They have got rid of the one batsman who could.

This is the KEY for me, more than Sehwag's stats. India ascended to new levels in test cricket MAINLY because of the explosive starts it got from Sehwag. Within the first few hours, Sehwag routinely took the game away from the opponents, often laying the foundation for a BIG first innings total. And given our mentally fragile middle order (barring Dravid), a big & momentum filled start is all the more important. I dont want to write off Karthik as he did well in the limited opportunities he's had as an opener, but by denying ourselves a "Sehwag" option, we have shot ourselves on our foot even before the tour has begun. I wouldnt mind if Jaffar twists his knee between now & the beginning of the tour :-)

[Cricketics]

really wanted to have sehwag in tests.. was pretty handy in scoring some quick runs and put India away from pressure whenever India were trying to avoid follow on he would be missed

[Predator_05]

Openers often go through very lean patches. The new ball is very unforgiving, and players do lose their confidence. Remember the horrid patch Hayden went through a year ago? He couldn't buy a run if his life depended on it. Speculative articles cropped up like toadstools all over the world about how the chop was imminent. It never came. Hayden got over his lean patch and returned to fearsome form. The confidence returned and flowed. Australia is not the only team to stand by its stalwarts. South Africa's Graeme Smith and Andrew De Villiers suffered terrible dips in form. They were persisted with. England are doing the same with Andrew Strauss. Point is, batsmen like Sehwag don't come along very often. He's fearless, has a fantastic eye and backs himself. He averages 50 at the very highest level of cricket over 50 Tests. That didn't happen by chance. He is a very special batsman. If you believe in somebody like that, you back him through lean times. Odds are, he'll come out on the other side of it an even stronger player. He wasn't given the chance. The English bowlers won't be complaining. There's not a single bowler who walks this earth who would mind bowling to Dinesh Kartick in Sehwag's breach. The other point I wanted to make is that India's top six are very similar- dour batsmen who persevere, but struggle to dominate attacks. They have got rid of the one batsman who could. Cricket just isn't the same for me any more.

Well said. Sehwag is India's best Test batsman alongside Dravid. One below average season doesn't change that. But that is okay...let the gullible fools have their way. Once they see Dinesh Karthik being eaten alive for breakfast by Harmison and Hoggard, they will be clamouring for Sehwag.