Would you take Wasim Jaffer to South Africa or England tour?

[Trundler27]

The only oldie with a snowballs chance in hell to make the SA squad is Zak. I don't think Gambo or Viru are going to make it let alone a perennial Ranji champion like Jaffer or Amol Mazumdar. We are clearly the underdogs going to SA and so I strongly think that 1 proven player or experienced hand is not going to make any difference in a test match scenario. Let's stick to the youngsters and see what they are made of. Our old guard recently got pummelled 8-0 in away tests so I don't want them back hoping for a miracle turnaround.

[G_B_]

i repeat again Vijay is 30 years old (or nearly) that is not a youngster. Not old but not young either. A youngster for me is somebody 27 and under.

[vvvslaxman]

i dont like his technique' date='i think he`ll fail..he doesn't look assured as an opener[/quote'] He is a sitting duck against full pitched deliveries outside the offstump. If there is a bit of movement he is clueless.

[G_B_]

Point is Mukund should have been persisted with. If he fails then fair enough axe him. He got i think 3 chances in England when barring dravid the entire team failed with the bat and he was axed. Vijay has got enough chances. A huge % of them at home. This is exactly what i mean by Indian not giving people a fair run. We wasted Badri by plugging in Yuvi and Raina two people who had pathetic ranji averages. Now we are wasting Mukund by giving Vijay way too many chances.

[vvvslaxman]

There are some guys who may not go on to have a great career. But if they deserve a run they need it. After chennai test debacle his scores have been 167, 153, 26, 57, 11, 26. So there is no real reason to drop other than "gut feeling" . Some guys suffered because of this. Sadagoppan Ramesh last 4 innings scores 47, 31, 46, 55. Well not great.. But not poor enough to be dropped forever as well. Vijay deserves a chance to fail before we move on to other options. We have plenty of them.

[putrevus]

It seems like Rahane is not at all interested in opening, he is still batting in middle order for mumbai.So If Vijay does not work out who is going to open???