Just like he chases balls on slow pitches all the time right?
But your talking like Gambhir isn't a good batsman for these kind of pitches. He just came out of domestic Cricket in the form of his life.
Let's wait until we win the match, shall we?
Sehwag is more proven than Gambhir at the highest level. I'm a huge Gambhir fan, but Sehwag is a key member of the Indian test side and he has a good chance of getting back into form on such a pitch. That said, Karthik having a good technique probably helped them make the decision to retain Sehwag.
The next tour is in England and that is several months away. We have a Ranji Trophy match, 8 ODIs and the World Cup before then.
Whilst India's opening partnerships were crap, surely the pitch must be taken into account.Before this test, we've had opening partnerships of 14, 20, 5 and 14 ... for a grand total of 53.
That's right, we've just eclipsed that in one innings. Dire stuff in the first two tests.
Those flighted balls to Karthik were good, but nothing too threatening at the moment. Mind you only day 1, but still, unless (as Cricinfo pointed out) India repeat their stupidity against left arm spinners, I fancy Tendulkar, Laxman and Ganguly against him until the pitch does more.
Good thing about SA is that they've got four bowlers outside of Harris. So even if he gets taken off, they've got enough to just field an all pace attack.