Indian cricket should ring in the new...and ring out Sehwag

By John Cheeran
Courage to take honest decisions can be displayed in an individual’s life easily. When it comes to a group of individuals such courageous decisions are hard to contemplate for leaders, especially when you have to listen to wooly voices.
But what sets leaders apart from the led is the ability to take brutal decisions.
What and who makes the life of opener Virender Sehwag easy in Indian cricket team?
What makes Sourav Ganguly continue with his blind batting that he has indulged in the series so far? Ganguly’s batting in Durban was total disgrace.
By bringing Ganguly back if you think the team has benefited from the so-called experience, I send my sympathies to Rahul Dravid in Newlands, Cape Town.
A youngster like Robin Uthappa would have made a difference to this side’s batting. At least Uthappa would have learnt from his failures unlike Sehwag and Ganguly.
In bowling it was six-Test old Shantakumaran Sreesanth who delivered killer blows for India. Munaf Patel and even Zaheer Khan and VRV Singh are hardly veterans but willing learners who have tore in to rival fabric.
This South African series has been a chronicle of feckless batting so far. Sehwag, Wasim Jaffer, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Ganguly have failed in living up to the challenges.
India expect runs from these guys, each time they go out to bat.
I hope Indian batsmen are not in a contest for the bold and beautiful, so that they survive a three-Test series on the diet of a thin half-century.The nation should not sing hosannas to these brand ambassadors. Let their bats not speak Bengali or Hindi or Kannada, but runs, runs for India.