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November 22, 2004
India's opening pair of Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir put up a superb show in response to South Africa's first innings declaration. This is India's highest opening partnership since Multan earlier this year when Sehwag scored a triple century.
Putting India's opening woes in perspective, prior to today's stand, there've only been eight century opening partnerships for India in the last 50 tests. Tells a story, doesnt it? Aside from the Multan effort, in chronological order, they are:
- Ramesh and Das at Madras setting up India's huge first innings score
- Ramesh and Das at Colombo [nearly 100 partnership in each inngs]
- Das and Dasgupta at Ahmedabad in a 200 run chase
- Bangar and Sehwag in a 200 partnership at Bombay
- Chopra and Sehwag 164 at Mohali
Chopra and Sehwag 141 at Melbourne - Chopra and Sehwag 120 at Sydney
Chopra and Sehwag feature in four of those eight efforts and Chopra is now dropped. Ramesh and Das figure in two of those while Das figures in a third along with Dasgupta and none of them are in the picture either. Its not as if there're too many openers knocking at the doors, is it? So why have we spoilt so many careers?
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