Can Sehwag adapt to true seniority?

[Cricket Tragic]

Sometime this November Sehwag will complete 100 Tests. But at the other, a century of Tests accords Sehwag a deeper status, a seniority he has allowed to pass him by for much of his career. He has been a senior player for a while, of course, but in a batting order of Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman and Sachin Tendulkar, seniority comes to mean a different thing entirely. But as his landmark approaches, Sehwag finds himself delicately placed. Immediately behind him stretch two underwhelming years, years of an incompleteness. He averages 35, has not hit a Test hundred since November 2010 (but has nine 50s and nine other scores above 20 in 16 Tests) and outside the subcontinent has been dismal for longer. The game is mocking him back now. You thought you had mastered me? Not so easy now is it? His in-between status has allowed this to go not unremarked but under-dissected. The troubles of those more senior and the fortunes of those junior have been handy distractions. There is a school of thought which worries that Sehwag's peak has passed, that Sehwag, a creature who let his hands react instantly and instinctively to what his eyes processed, is getting older as his eyes and hands get slower and their communication poorer. They also worry he does not have the technical base to fall back on to reconfigure his game. But actually, Sehwag has a pretty solid technique, or at least a successful one. How can he not with his record? The bigger concern must be whether he is willing to adapt his game to how his body is changing, to how he is now being bowled to, to eliminate risk like Tendulkar has done. Can he go from being a batsman whose existence brought runs to one who accumulates runs to exist? He is smart enough and cares enough to do it. And on occasion, he has done it (it is not a prerequisite but great batsmen have invariably been great adapters) but can he do it now and prolong it until he goes? Regenerating at 34 requires an obscene amount of sacrifice. http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/sport-comment/virender-sehwags-best-days-are-behind-him#full

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[Sidhoni]

Always felt this is one of the reasons he does not have the value of a Dravid or a Sachin or Zaheer in the team.

[maniac]

No way....The guy just threw away a solid start without getting the job done in the 4th innings against a weak side in the last match he played.... The more sickening thing is guys like Shastri and Gavaskar playing those Rich parents of a spoilt brat saying "that is the way he plays" with a look of amusement and adulation.Time to give him a reality check

[Cricket Tragic]

DZ aka Sid being pessimistic as usual. :headshake:

[Trichromatic]

DZ aka Sid being pessimistic as usual. :headshake:

I guess he will realize it sooner or later that he has to change himself a bit.

[cricketpitch]

Unless we drop Sehwag to number 6, we will not see him taking any sort of responsibility.

[Executioner]

Dil to bachcha hai jee

[Magneto]

The day he gets to know that he's a senior, he'll surely adapt to it.