When Virender Sehwag makes a comment, you better believe it.
He is also the batsman who has managed in part to unravel the so-called mystery of Ajantha Mendis variety of spin. This alone is exciting enough as Mendis has many awed by the way he has started his career and earned his wickets: facile words such as
wizard and magician follows his every footstep. But all that is media hype.Fortunately Sri Lankan Army second lieutenant keeps feet on terra firma. In fact there is the impression others are more impressed by all the publicity surrounding him than is Mendis who has admitted to enjoying being with his parents.
But for Sehwag, the reality is in his run-scoring ability and not only the way he mastered Mendis and tamed the menace. By the end day one (Thursday) of this second Test here, and already well into what is his fifteenth Test century, he suggested that the job had only been partly done as he first needed to rescue India then build the innings towards a competitive total.
