Rahul Dravid faces his ultimate test
'Dravid comes as one part of a mouth-watering middle-order that includes Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman
Sriram Veera
25-Feb-2013
'Dravid comes as one part of a mouth-watering middle-order that includes Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman. But Michael Atherton writes in The Sunday Telegraph that this time around there are more question marks than usual against some of his colleagues.
Tendulkar has been bedevilled by injuries to his elbow and shoulder, three of his last four Test hundreds have come against Bangladesh and, more than that, he looks a little careworn and slower at the crease.
.. suspicion remains that Ganguly is past his best. Like Tendulkar, he has become something of a bottom-feeder, scoring recent Test hundreds against Zimbabwe and Bangladesh.
Laxman has never scored a Test hundred against England, his average against them eight notches below his overall. Accordingly, English audiences have never been quite able to understand what all the fuss is about.
Sriram Veera is a former staff writer at ESPNcricinfo