Same for Ganguly, Dravid (who wasn't out despite what Mr Doctrove thought) Tendulkar and Jaffer as well IMO. Shades of 03/04 all over again? Potentially so.
With one difference. The 500+ scores in that phase were usually built around one 300+ run partnership (once 400+) between almost any two of Sehwag/Dravid/Tendulkar/Laxman and one of those 4 going on to make a seminal score.
This year the big scores are likely to be based on 3,4,5 or even decent 6 partnerships with many 50+ scores from all positions 1-7, sometimes even from 8,9,10,11. Nobody except Jaffer has gotten a big score in the last year but the team has had a few good totals.
Similar story in bowling. Many 2-fors, 3-fors and 4-fors in the
same innings from Kumble, Zaheer but also from RP,Sree, Harbhajan with Ganguly,Sachin pitching in. (In limited overs, Pathan has put up a bunch of them too*.) A couple of 5-fors but none of those 7-fors, 8-fors yet.
Collective resilience vs individual brilliance is an unusual theme in Indian cricket. (real competition for spots is helping no doubt).
* Why I think he needs to be tried out in the test format again. Swing is down but pace,cutters are up but most of all discipline to fit in to a bigger plan is there.