Navjot Singh Sidhu,

The Indian batting line-up is like a bicycle stand, one goes down and the entire row goes tumbling down.

The above opinion seemed to have been proven otherwise by the ever improving Indian cricket squad, be it down under or the Chinnaswami stadium, just last week, the batters had stood the hard test of time proving their metal on every tread. Yet the most consistent word that’s haunted the Indian lush for ages – inconsistency, has been consistent for the team all the while. Keeping the fanatics wondering, where is the team consistent? If the bowling clicks the batters disappoint and vice versa – and fielding, that has been a bane for us always.

Captain Anil Kumble, the old horse, decides to put his side to bat at the Sardar Patel Stadium, up front, (second test against South Africa at Ahemdabad) taking heart from the last test, or otherwise to provide his own injury a little rest. Perhaps, missing the real fact - Sehwag and Co. too needed some rest. Come out and rest at the earliest boys, we have the twenty-20 next (where we rule the world), this seemed to be the message programmed into the Indian heads, as the entire squad tumbled to a poultry 76 well within the last ball of the 20th over.

Blame the track for the quandary, that’s what the lads do – but don’t forget the game’s in your own backyard this time. Claim to become the top Test side, heat of the hour is what you need to pass through. How hot the hours of that session were, can be well guessed not by the met dept. in Motera, but by the strikes on the pitch that steamed with every stride of pace from lethal Dale Steyn, Makhaya Ntini and Morne Morkel.

The day’s play is on, with Proteas at (130/4 in 35 overs), being rickety now, will only put you lower, my Indian Lions, rise up for the occasion coz time is on your hand. Conditions are favorable, yet endurance is the key.