The form is what matters and that has happened to Gautam Gambir. After a good stint at 2020 and a few one day internationals and a great knock in the Ranji trophy with Mumbai he has further strengthened his position as a strong contender for test also. Our approach to the game has to be professional lets give chance to somebody who is a professional opener and who has been opening for their state. GG has been a long time opener for his state Delhi in both forms cricket. Even in the past selectors have just been experimenting to fill up the opening slot for the tests. It dates back to the 70's when they could never get the perfect partner for Sunny before they finally managed to get Chetan Chauhan. We have so many openers come and gone to name a few S.Ramesh, W. V.Raman., Sewhag, Deep Dasgupta, S.Das to name. a few.
You need a specialist for specialist position. You cannot ask a General Physician to perform a surgery when that's not his speciality. It his high time the selectors draw a plan to get good openers who will play the role of an opener and not a makeshift player like Kartik. In the past we had several make shift openers like Anshuman Gaekwad, Dilp Vengsarkar, Roger Binny, Ashok Mankad, Nayan Mongia, Manoj Prabhakar.
By forcing Dinesh Kartik to open in test and his constant failure can upset his career and bring down the morale . We need to really have a very focused strategy to identify good openers. And somebody who has been playing for his state on a continuous basis.
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