The key reason to play five bowlers, was the view they didn't have enough wickets in the side outside Murali, not to do with bowler fatigue. With Mendis and Murali together I reckon they will back themselves to take 20 wickets without the 5th bowler. Maharoof is 50/50 when it comes to selection anyway due to injury.
Heard mixed reports about that. The word was that they could have played Prasanna if they wanted to. But they wanted to give the seven batsmen theory another shot, due to inexperience opening combination and inconsitency of middle order. Basically felt they didn't have enough runs in top six.
Sehwag cannot resist when he sees a spinner. He does not respect spinners. There was only one spinner that he should have payed respect to (because he got him out). But now there are two. (Both are from SL)
Saw the clip and I agree with comments by one of the user "ameralimemon" in user comments. I've seen many pakistani kids do just what mendis is doing with a tape ball, and yes its hard to bowl the doosra with the hard ball because its flicked, but none of those are hard to pick out. Its good to see spinners evolving the bowling, just feel sad that fast bowlers have nothing but declined.
Sehwag is definitely one of the better players of spin in the world. I haven't seen any spinner trouble him unless he did something stupid or there is something in the track .... I have doubts whether Mendis would have troubled him on a track like that. with the way Sehwag was going in that game, he probably wouldn't have allowed Mendis to settle down
.... would you say the same if Mendis had got Lara out 
not at all. But the thing about Sehwag is that him and Gambhir along with Dhoni are perhaps the 3 guys in that line up who are best equipped to handle quality spin. I do think we would have done much better had Sehwag shown some kind of restraint and tried to get used to him first before stepping down like that. He doesn't even flight the ball much, FFS. That is why it was so silly. The other 4 batters in our line up are dead meat against quality spin with variations... Seems so strange coz our test batting line up, esp. the middle order, is perhaps the best when it comes to facing spin but our ODI middle order is perhaps the worst.
Karthik - because he is a far superior wicket keeper.
This is a young, new middle-order and the players have played few matches together. The only veteran, if any, is Yuvraj Singh- but he's so careless, he needs a rap on the knees once too often. They have their problems, but we know what they can do at best, and they need to know what to do- something they'll learn in a match.honestbharani said:our ODI middle order is perhaps the worst.
Patel would do well to take my advise (if he is reading this) which was given when he was still playing for India.
