Well, Lara’s better in circumstances where everything around him is going haywire - few great Test batsmen have ever had to fight as many rearguard actions as Brian Lara unless you think of John Reid as a great batsman.

But Sehwag is clearly his equal in generous circumstances. When a batsman is truly in his pomp, there are few in postwar history (except obviously Viv, and I suppose his idol Tendulkar) who have the majesty of Sehwag.

Tell me one thing, whats your point here? I am sure dont have much to praise. Screamer pitch, no footwork at all..
Agree pitch is flat.. but so are many other pitches and lots of matches being played on those pitches. Not every now and then do you a player scoring 300. Not to mention, Smith and Kallis, rated higher than sehwag had first use of this screamer track. Dude learn to give credit when due and be generous in that.

Shankar - you are typical of the worst of the modern cricket fans. You idolize players without any knowledge of the game and abuse anyone who dares to think differently. This is cricket not Bollywood or MTV but you are too stupid to know that. It’s you that needs to get a life. Dude

You weren’t just questioning the Lara point, you pulled out the persecuted Indian fan card, not once, but twice.

I think that’s now taken over as my least favourite cricket fan persona above the mindless Australian yob who won’t shut up about subcontinental chuckers.

Will did give credit where it’s due. Sehwag has a brilliant eye, but never ever moves his bloody feet

I’m waiting for the “I told you so” article from Ian Chappell on cricinfo though….

yes good ole Sewage had the good grace not to go for the 401. Quite right and proper too. He played well on a pitch which, if this were an timeless test would probably never end. Never mind.
It was Sachin who I felt sorry for.

Well now; 6 months ago were you saying Sehwag was an all time Indian great? I think not…

It’s just another media bandwagon.

Also except for dravid and jaffer who batted with viru every1 elsestruggled against the south african line up.Their bowling attack is like aus, better actually ,without the hype.South africa always gets left arm spinners to india and makes them bowl over the wicket outside the leg stump.This also is not easy to score against.See what viru did to him.Also this blog doesn’t matter, I know for a fact he is one of the most liked indian batsman around the world.Every1 likes watching him bat.
In multan 300 against fully fit shoaib,sami,saqlain,shabbir(when he wasn’t called for chucking).These are good bowling line ups.Personally, my favourite is his unbelievable 195 at the MCG.He slaughtered the bowlers even after they resorted to fully defensive lines and fields.

Lara’s pitch may have been flatter, but Lara smokes bigger cigars. So there.

Well, you don’t need to convince me about Sehwag- he’s one of my all-time favourite players. And it’s good to see that his hukka habit hasn’t affected his fitness. Maybe more people should take up the hukka- after all, look what it does for New Zealand rugby.

Well, as a train-spotter, I am just going to say that Hayden got his 380 against Zimbabwe - little difference, in the overall scheme of things.
And the way Sehwag is going he will get his chance to get a hundred in New Zealand. Let’s just hope he gets to play at Maclean Park. Now test cricket has moved away from Eden Park - even I may have to make the trip to watch him.
Having not had any coverage over here, I cannot comment on his inning, but ieven on the flattest of pitches, this is test cricket - one mistake and you are done.
About Sehwag being a great, well let’s go with Gill, let’s take a look at the end of his career.
But with three of the fastest seven double-hundreds in test cricket, no-one can deny that he is one of the most devastating batsmen to play the game. Note - I said one of.

Now credit should be given where its due.No I am not talking about viru.Forget him.Dale steyn has conclusively proved he is the BEST pace bowler in the world right now.
He’s bowled india out at home for “76″.Granted ,no sachin,only 5 batsmen,terrible pitch, but “76″.Hoping bhajji polishes them up quickly.This might be the most humiliating loss ever and the BCCI is mainly responsible.Mr.Pawar needed/needs votes from different state associations,hence even after they make crap wickets nothn is done to them.I’d like a financial penalty.
Both the madras and the ahemadabad pitches have destroyed the game.Whatever happened to the ‘indian turners’.The indian team has absolutely no control on the pitches that are served up, which is stupid in a way.This is our home series isn’t it.We don’t get indian wickets in Africa.Why in the name of god are these fools dishing up home wickets for SA.I can clearly remember the last time SA came to india for a one day series.It was tied 2-2 & the Eden gardens calcutta match was somthn like this.African wicket,smith loved it,ganguly wasn’t in the team so believe it or not the local crowd booed india and cheered for SA.It forced 1-2 players from india to come over to mumbai and make comments like,”Nice to be back in india”.Thankfully the crowd’s with the indians this time.

Well is he? Dale Steyn - best bowler right now. His stats are tremendous, yes, but how much cricket has he played away from home, and how well has he done. Irregardless of that fact, he did dominate New Zealand in South Africa.

But this is a four-match series, and yet again someone, in this case you, have based something on the one performance.

Whereas Ryan Sidebottom, destroyed the New Zealander’s in three tests and he definitely has to be up there. And they were flat tracks aswell.

But like you said - credit when it’s due. To comeback and take five wickets on the first day to roll the Indians, after their 1st test batting performance, mainly by the one man, but still - is a great effort.

Well sachin was the top scorer in tests in australia wasn’t he.Did well in england too.May be you don’t watch enough test cricket.Pitch independent bowling makes steyn what he is.Ntini is an example of a pitch dependent bowler.Also lee tended to frustrate the indians out on their tur.He bowled a consistent 5th, even 6th stump line going further away for 5 balls in an over generally and then cut in 1.Steyn does everything off the stumps.He’s an out and out attack bowler.Lee against Sri lanka I don’t know ,but you can play him out.He kept getting nicks didn’t he??The african keeps bloody knocking the stumps out.Bowls a mean bouncer too.
Also ,it’s a 3 match series.Essentially ,that means india can’t win the series unless miraculously they draw this one(no rain in ahemadabad).India with sreesanth did this to SA in joburg(all out for 84).SA have evened it out,and how.Majola CEO of SA board had said smith and his boys will thump india.Huge statement to make on an india tour.I can’t see an australian team management member or team member saying somthn like that.
Check steyn’s record, more than 5 wickets per test.Over the years lee has a bigger stature but instantaneously my vote goes to steyn.I believe for an year or so atleast until maybe he gets injured due to excessive cricket ,he will be the no 1 test match wicket taker.

Let’s see what happens in the 3rd test.