Tendulkar injured meant that he would not be playing the second test against South Africa. The poor performance of the pacers R P Singh and Sreesanth and a track meant to help the spinners at Ahmedabad meant that Piyush Chawla would be preferred over one of the pacers if the Team decided to play five bowlers and Irfan Pathan could open the bowling and fill in the gap of the batsmen and act as an allrounder.
The question was whether the team should have played 5 bowlers and strengthened their bowling or continued to have played 6 batsmen. Logic required the Indian think tank to have gone in with 6 batsmen since we had lost our most important batsman Sachin Tendulkar. Thus Yuvraj Singh should have been taken in place of Sachin Tendulkar. India could have taken a step further to strengthen their batting by taking Irfan Pathan instead of R P Singh.
I have also noticed in the past that whenever India have tried to strengthen their bowling trying to take 20 wickets in the match to win the match, they have instead lost the match by weakening their batting. The Indian batsmen play under pressure which requires a strong batting line up in order to survive a match. I guess a strong batting line up suits the Indian team better since they are able to put pressure on the opposition by putting up a good score. If there are 4 good bowlers they are able to do the job of getting the wickets and winning the match.
According to me the ideal team would have been
Virender Sehwag, Wasim Jaffer, Rahul Dravid, V V S Laxman, Saurav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh, M S Dhoni, Irfan Pathan, Anil Kumble, Harbajan Singh and Sreesanth.
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